Elementor Hello Plus Plugin up to 1.7.7 on WordPress authorization

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Elementor Hello Plus Plugin up to 1.7.7. This impacts an unknown function. The manipulation leads to authorization. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-5727. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Elementor Hello Plus Plugin up to 1.7.7. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-639. The system's authorization functionality does not prevent one user from gaining access to another user's data or record by modifying the key value identifying the data. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The Hello Plus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.7. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to publish their own Hello+ header/footer templates and draft currently active templates owned by higher-privileged users.

It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-5727 since 04/07/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/10/2026).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-96058). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• Elementor

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• Hello Plus Plugin

Version

• 1.7.0
• 1.7.1
• 1.7.2
• 1.7.3
• 1.7.4
• 1.7.5
• 1.7.6
• 1.7.7

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