King Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 51.1.80 on WordPress authorization

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in King Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 51.1.80 and classified as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to authorization. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-84904. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in King Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 51.1.80. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-862. The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The King Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin before 51.1.81 does not perform per-object authorization checks on a group of image-optimization actions, gating them only on a coarse capability that lower-privileged users also hold and never confirming ownership of the targeted object, allowing authenticated users with author-level access and above to disclose absolute file paths for, overwrite the bytes of, and site-wide re-reference media belonging to other users, including administrators.

The advisory is shared for download at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-84904 since 09/02/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Upgrading to version 51.1.81 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Productinfo

Type

• WordPress Plugin

Name

• King Addons for Elementor Plugin

Version

• 51.1.0
• 51.1.1
• 51.1.2
• 51.1.3
• 51.1.4
• 51.1.5
• 51.1.6
• 51.1.7
• 51.1.8
• 51.1.9
• 51.1.10
• 51.1.11
• 51.1.12
• 51.1.13
• 51.1.14
• 51.1.15
• 51.1.16
• 51.1.17
• 51.1.18
• 51.1.19
• 51.1.20
• 51.1.21
• 51.1.22
• 51.1.23
• 51.1.24
• 51.1.25
• 51.1.26
• 51.1.27
• 51.1.28
• 51.1.29
• 51.1.30
• 51.1.31
• 51.1.32
• 51.1.33
• 51.1.34
• 51.1.35
• 51.1.36
• 51.1.37
• 51.1.38
• 51.1.39
• 51.1.40
• 51.1.41
• 51.1.42
• 51.1.43
• 51.1.44
• 51.1.45
• 51.1.46
• 51.1.47
• 51.1.48
• 51.1.49
• 51.1.50
• 51.1.51
• 51.1.52
• 51.1.53
• 51.1.54
• 51.1.55
• 51.1.56
• 51.1.57
• 51.1.58
• 51.1.59
• 51.1.60
• 51.1.61
• 51.1.62
• 51.1.63
• 51.1.64
• 51.1.65
• 51.1.66
• 51.1.67
• 51.1.68
• 51.1.69
• 51.1.70
• 51.1.71
• 51.1.72
• 51.1.73
• 51.1.74
• 51.1.75
• 51.1.76
• 51.1.77
• 51.1.78
• 51.1.79
• 51.1.80

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