CVE-2025-32641 in Anant Addons for Elementor Plugin
Summary
by MITRE • 04/09/2025
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in anantaddons Anant Addons for Elementor allows Cross Site Request Forgery. This issue affects Anant Addons for Elementor: from n/a through 1.1.5.
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Analysis
by VulDB Data Team • 04/09/2025
This cross-site request forgery vulnerability in the Anant Addons for Elementor plugin represents a critical security weakness that undermines the integrity of web applications built on the Elementor page builder platform. The vulnerability stems from insufficient validation of requests originating from external domains, allowing malicious actors to exploit the plugin's administrative functions through crafted requests that appear to come from legitimate users. The affected version range indicates that all installations from the initial release through version 1.1.5 remain vulnerable, suggesting a persistent flaw in the plugin's request handling mechanisms that has not been adequately addressed in the specified version updates.
The technical flaw manifests in the plugin's failure to implement proper anti-forgery tokens or origin validation checks within its administrative endpoints. When administrators perform actions through the Elementor interface, the plugin should verify that requests originate from authorized sources and contain valid authentication tokens that prevent unauthorized operations. Without these protections, attackers can construct malicious web pages or send specially crafted requests that, when executed by authenticated administrators, perform unintended actions within the plugin's administrative interface. This vulnerability directly maps to CWE-352, which categorizes cross-site request forgery as a weakness where applications fail to validate the origin of requests and lack proper anti-forgery measures.
The operational impact of this vulnerability extends beyond simple data manipulation to potentially enable full administrative compromise of affected websites. An attacker who successfully exploits this CSRF flaw could perform actions such as modifying plugin settings, deleting content, creating new user accounts, or even installing malicious code within the Elementor environment. Given that Elementor is widely used for building WordPress websites, the potential attack surface is substantial, as administrators often have elevated privileges that could be leveraged to gain deeper access to the underlying web application or server infrastructure. This vulnerability aligns with ATT&CK technique T1566.001, which describes social engineering tactics involving the manipulation of web requests to execute unauthorized actions.
Mitigation strategies should prioritize immediate plugin updates to versions that address the CSRF vulnerability, though administrators must verify that the updated versions properly implement anti-forgery mechanisms. Organizations should also consider implementing additional protective measures such as network-level restrictions on administrative endpoints, browser-based security headers, and regular security audits of installed plugins. The remediation process should include comprehensive testing to ensure that the plugin's administrative functions properly validate request sources and implement robust authentication tokens. Security monitoring should be enhanced to detect unusual administrative activities that might indicate CSRF exploitation attempts, while also ensuring that all administrative interfaces maintain proper session management and request validation controls to prevent similar vulnerabilities from emerging in other components of the web application stack.