themewant Easy Elements for Elementor Plugin up to 1.4.5 on WordPress Login/Register easyel_handle_register privileges management

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in themewant Easy Elements for Elementor Plugin up to 1.4.5 on WordPress. This vulnerability affects the function easyel_handle_register of the component Login/Register. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-9018. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in themewant Easy Elements for Elementor Plugin up to 1.4.5 on WordPress. This issue affects the function easyel_handle_register of the component Login/Register. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The weakness was shared by Arya Eka Rahmat Prasetyo. It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-9018 since 05/19/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 1.4.5 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-31410). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• themewant

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• Easy Elements for Elementor Plugin

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• 1.4.0
• 1.4.1
• 1.4.2
• 1.4.3
• 1.4.4
• 1.4.5

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