Attackers Actively Exploiting Critical Vulnerability in King Addons for Elementor Plugin

On July 24th, 2025, we received a submission for a Privilege Escalation vulnerability in King Addons for Elementor, a WordPress plugin with more than 10,000 active installations. This vulnerability makes it possible for an unauthenticated attacker to grant themselves administrative privileges by specifying the administrator user role during registration. The vendor released the patched version on September 25th, 2025, and we originally disclosed this vulnerability in the Wordfence Intelligence vulnerability database on October 30th, 2025. Our records indicate that attackers started exploiting the issue the next day, on October 31st, 2025. The Wordfence Firewall has already blocked over 48,400 exploit