CVE•Published 2025-10-31•Modified 2026-10-07•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2025-8489
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
95
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 5% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
The King Addons for Elementor – Free Elements, Widgets, Templates, and Features for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions 24.12.92 to 51.1.14 . This is due to the plugin not properly restricting the roles that users can register with. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register with administrator-level user accounts.
Timeline
Published 2025-10-31
Modified 2026-10-07
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2025-8489Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2025-8489Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2025-8489Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2025-8489GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2025-8489" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub (3)
CVE-2025-84893 repos
ravens/awesome-telcoPython
A curated list of telco resources and projects
AiGptCode/AiGPT-WordPress-Exploitation-FrameworkPython
AiGPT started from the concept of CVE‑2024‑27956 , the WP Automatic CSV injection — but has been completely rebuilt into a multi‑vector, unauthenticated WordPress exploitation engi…
colocohen/turn-serverJavaScript
STUN/TURN server and client for Node.js