Improper privilege management in themewant Easy Elements for Elementor – Addons & Website…
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Privilege escalation
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-269.
Summary
The Easy Elements for Elementor – Addons & Website Templates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.5 via the `easyel_handle_register()` function. This is due to the `wp_ajax_nopriv_eel_register` AJAX handler iterating the attacker-controlled `custom_meta` POST array and writing every supplied key-value pair to the newly created user's meta via `update_user_meta()` without any key whitelist or blocklist, allowing the `wp_capabilities` user meta key to be overwritten after `wp_insert_user()` has already assigned a safe role. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register a new account with full administrator-level privileges by supplying `custom_meta[wp_capabilities][administrator]=1`. Exploitation requires that user registration is enabled on the site and that at least one page exposes the Login/Register widget, which publishes the required `easy_elements_nonce` into the page DOM where it can be retrieved by any unauthenticated visitor via a simple GET request.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-9018
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-jvg6-x4cw-2wj7
References
Other 5
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f1de4899-532a-4558-bff0-f4610bfdd49d?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easy-elements/tags/1.4.5/widgets/login-register/class.login-register.php#L65
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easy-elements/tags/1.4.5/widgets/login-register/class.login-register.php#L128
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easy-elements/tags/1.4.5/widgets/login-register/class.login-register.php#L9
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easy-elements/tags/1.4.5/includes/Utils/Enqueue.php#L200
More themewant vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-40422 WordPress Easy Elements for Elementor – Addons & Website Templates plugin <= 1.4.9 - Privilege Escalation vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-06393 Easy Elements for Elementor <= 1.4.4 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via easyel_handle_register CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-46605 Missing authorization in themewant RT Mega Menu – Mega Menu Builder for Elementor &… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
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- TI-2026-42522 Cross-site scripting in themewant RT Mega Menu – Mega Menu Builder for Elementor &… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2026-13168 RT Mega Menu <= 1.5.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'pointer_menu_item' Block Attribute CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.4
Sources
- CVE-2026-9018 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-9018 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-jvg6-x4cw-2wj7 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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