# Premium Addons for Elementor – AI-Ready Elementor Addons, Widgets & Templates <= 4.11.115 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Missing Authorization to Limited Published Template Creation via Live Editor

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-1598
- **Plugin:** Premium Addons for Elementor – AI-Ready Elementor Addons, Widgets & Templates (`premium-addons-for-elementor`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/premium-addons-for-elementor/
- **Affected versions:** from 4.8.10 before 4.11.116
- **Fixed in:** 4.11.116 (Update to 4.11.116 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 High, affected versions High (as of 2026-10-25)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/premium-addons-for-elementor
- **Fix released:** 2026-10-23
- **Published:** 2026-10-24
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1598/

## Description

The Premium Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data via the live editor's 'handle_live_editor' AJAX action in versions 4.8.10 up to, and including, 4.11.115, due to a missing capability check. The handler checked only a nonce that is printed in the Elementor editor. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to create published, empty Elementor templates (elementor_library posts) that their role could not normally publish, and to get the ID and edit URL of existing live editor templates.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1598/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/premium-addons-for-elementor/tags/4.11.116/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/premium-addons-for-elementor/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-1598/

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.