Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets <= 6.8.6 - Unauthenticated Administrator Approval Bypass via Email OTP Registration
- ID
- WPSEC-2026-1343
- Plugin
- Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets (essential-addons-for-elementor-lite)
- Affected
- from 6.7.3 before 6.8.7
- Remediation
- Update to 6.8.7 or later.
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weakness
- CWE-863
- Usage
- Plugin High · Affected versions High among sites WPSec scans, 2026-10-21
- Attack surface
- Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets on WPSec AttackSurface
- Fix released
- Published
Description
The Essential Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to an Administrator Approval bypass via the Login | Register widget's Email OTP registration flow in all versions from 6.7.3 up to, and including, 6.8.6. This is due to the OTP registration paths (the pre-created "Show Flag on User list" account and the account created on code verification) never setting the 'eael_registration_status' pending flag that the approval login check relies on, and the post-verification auto-login running regardless of the approval setting. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to self-register an active account that can log in without the administrator approval the site requires. Exploitation requires user registration to be open, Administrator Approval to be enabled, and a Login | Register form with Email OTP registration enabled.
References
- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1343/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/tags/6.8.7/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/
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