WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Essential Addons for Elementor < 6.6.11 - Contributor+ Account Takeover via Email Header Injection

Description

The plugin is vulnerable to Account Takeover via Email Header Injection due to insufficient server-side validation of a Login/Register widget setting used to construct outgoing email headers — the allowed-values restriction is enforced only in the client-side editor UI and not on the server, and the applied sanitization does not strip or encode CR/LF characters, allowing CRLF sequences stored in that setting to survive into raw mail headers. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject an additional Bcc header into the WordPress administrator's password-reset notification email, receive a copy of a valid administrator password-reset link, and achieve full administrator account takeover.

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Original Researcher
Jonah Burgess (CryptoCat)
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-07-10 (about 1 month ago)
Added
2026-07-16 (about 1 month ago)
Last Updated
2026-07-16 (about 1 month ago)

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