CVE-2026-62062

Elementor Website Builder 4.3.0 - 4.3.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via REST Nonce Bypass to Privilege Escalation

2026-09-25 11:59
Saggre

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 4.3.2
Affected Plugin
Elementor Website Builder – more than just a page builder
Affected Version
4.3.0 – 4.3.1
CVSS
8.8High
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2026-62062
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At a glance

CVE-2026-62062 is a high-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Elementor Website Builder WordPress plugin, affecting versions 4.3.0 – 4.3.1. It carries a CVSS score of 8.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 4.3.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed September 2026, reported by Saggre.

Vulnerability Overview

The Elementor Website Builder – more than just a page builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions 4.3.0 to 4.3.1. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the is_own_route_request function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform any authenticated REST action available to the victim's role, including creating administrator-level accounts, modifying site options, or deleting content, while the victim's cookie session remains fully authenticated via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.

CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Reaching this weakness in Elementor Website Builder 4.3.0 – 4.3.1 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site request forgery abuses the fact that browsers attach a victim's cookies to any request, so a state-changing action that only checks who you are, not whether you meant to act, can be triggered from another site.

An attacker who gets a logged-in user to load a crafted page can perform that action as them, with the impact scaling to whatever the victim's role is allowed to do. For Elementor Website Builder the fix is 4.3.2: builds 4.3.0 – 4.3.1 are affected, anything from 4.3.2 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 4.3.2, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Elementor Website Builder: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Elementor Website Builder 4.3.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-62062https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7bea239c-8af6-4492-baf7-e63de2750005https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-62062

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