{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-9018 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2026-9018 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2026-9018 is a high-severity vulnerability in themewant Easy Elements for Elementor – Addons \u0026 Website Templates, published on 22 May 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-9018 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-9018 is a high-severity vulnerability in themewant Easy Elements for Elementor – Addons \u0026 Website Templates, published on 22 May 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-9018 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: themewant Easy Elements for Elementor – Addons \u0026 Website Templates. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-9018/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-9018/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-9018","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-9018/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-9018","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-jvg6-x4cw-2wj7"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["privilege_escalation","account_takeover"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"WordPress plugin","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Unauthenticated attackers can gain administrator privileges by injecting wp_capabilities into the custom_meta parameter during user registration.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"privilege_escalation"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Wordfence","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":8.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-269","name":"Improper Privilege Management"}],"description":"The Easy Elements for Elementor – Addons \u0026 Website Templates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.5 via the `easyel_handle_register()` function. This is due to the `wp_ajax_nopriv_eel_register` AJAX handler iterating the attacker-controlled `custom_meta` POST array and writing every supplied key-value pair to the newly created user's meta via `update_user_meta()` without any key whitelist or blocklist, allowing the `wp_capabilities` user meta key to be overwritten after `wp_insert_user()` has already assigned a safe role. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register a new account with full administrator-level privileges by supplying `custom_meta[wp_capabilities][administrator]=1`. Exploitation requires that user registration is enabled on the site and that at least one page exposes the Login/Register widget, which publishes the required `easy_elements_nonce` into the page DOM where it can be retrieved by any unauthenticated visitor via a simple GET request.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":"2026-05-23","github_poc":1,"max_poc_stars":1,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2026-05-23T04:34:31Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/xxconi/CVE-2026-9018","stars":1,"title":"Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation CVE-2026-9018: Easy Elements for Elementor"}],"tier":"poc_unverified"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Privilege escalation in Easy Elements for Elementor – Addons \u0026 Website Templates","id":"CVE-2026-9018","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"privilege_escalation","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"Cross-site scripting in Easy Image Collage","id":"CVE-2026-9019"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Missing authorization in NEX-Forms – Ultimate Forms Plugin for WordPress","id":"CVE-2026-9017"},"products":["Easy Elements for Elementor – Addons \u0026 Website Templates"],"published":"2026-05-22","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"open","licence":"CC0","name":"PoC-in-GitHub"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-22","vendors":["themewant"]},"summary":"Unauthenticated attackers can gain administrator privileges by injecting wp_capabilities into the custom_meta parameter during user registration.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-9018/"}