# PowerPack Addons for Elementor <= 3.1.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Missing Authorization to Enabled Widgets and Extensions Modification

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-0862
- **Plugin:** PowerPack Addons for Elementor (Free Widgets, Extensions and Templates) (`powerpack-lite-for-elementor`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/powerpack-lite-for-elementor/
- **Affected versions:** from 3.0.0 before 3.1.1
- **Fixed in:** 3.1.1 (Update to 3.1.1 or later.)
- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
- **Weakness:** CWE-862
- **Usage among sites WPSec scans:** plugin Medium, affected versions Medium (as of 2026-10-13)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/powerpack-lite-for-elementor
- **Fix released:** 2026-10-13
- **Published:** 2026-10-14
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-0862/

## Description

The PowerPack Addons for Elementor (Free Widgets, Extensions and Templates) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data via the powerpack/v1/settings REST route in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.0, due to the route's write method using the read permission check (edit_posts) and the enabled widgets and extensions settings requiring only the edit_posts capability. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to change which of the plugin's widgets and extensions are enabled on the site, for example disabling all of them.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-0862/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/powerpack-lite-for-elementor/tags/3.1.1/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/powerpack-lite-for-elementor/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-0862/

License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Free to use, share and adapt, also commercially, if you credit WPSec and link to this advisory.