# CVE-2025-0661: DethemeKit For Elementor <= 2.1.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Protected Post Disclosure

> Authenticated contributors can duplicate protected posts to expose private, draft, or scheduled content in the DethemeKit for Elementor plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 13 Feb 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-wx3f-pjjp-293h

## What is CVE-2025-0661?

CVE-2025-0661 is a medium-severity vulnerability in DethemeKit for Elementor, published on 13 Feb 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The DethemeKit For Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.36 via the duplicate_post() function due to insufficient restrictions on which posts can be duplicated. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to extract data from password protected, private, draft, or scheduled posts that they should not have access to by duplicating the post.

Weakness: CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-0661?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Detheme Dethemekit for Elementor.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-0661?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-0661 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-0661 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-0661 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in DethemeKit for Elementor

- [CVE-2025-26772](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-26772/): WordPress DethemeKit For Elementor plugin <= 2.1.8 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2024-47632](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-47632/): WordPress DethemeKit For Elementor plugin <= 2.1.7 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2024-34575](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-34575/): WordPress DethemeKit For Elementor plugin <= 2.1.2 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2024-32508](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-32508/): WordPress DethemeKit For Elementor plugin <= 2.0.2 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2025-1526](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1526/): DethemeKit for Elementor <= 2.1.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (medium 6.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-0661 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-0661 is a medium-severity vulnerability in DethemeKit for Elementor, published on 13 Feb 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-0661 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: DethemeKit for Elementor. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-0661/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-0661/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-0661
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-0661
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-0661

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Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.