CVE-2026-1004

Essential Addons for Elementor <= 6.5.5 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure

2026-01-15 20:04
shrikant bhosale

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 6.5.6
Affected Plugin
Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets
Affected Version
<= 6.5.5
CVSS
5.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
CVE
CVE-2026-1004
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At a glance

CVE-2026-1004 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Essential Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 6.5.5. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 6.5.6; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2026, reported by shrikant bhosale.

Vulnerability Overview

The Essential Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to and including 6.5.5 via the 'eael_product_quickview_popup' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve WooCommerce product information for products with draft, pending, or private status, which should normally be restricted.

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, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-862: Missing Authorization

Essential Addons for Elementor <= 6.5.5 carries this weakness at eael_product_quickview_popup, and reaching it takes no account at all. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.

Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For Essential Addons for Elementor the fix is 6.5.6: builds <= 6.5.5 are affected, anything from 6.5.6 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 6.5.6, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

This one needs no account at all, which puts it outside what login hardening can reach; WordSec's login security narrows the account-level paths around it, and the firewall is what inspects the request itself. None of that substitutes for the fix: Essential Addons for Elementor 6.5.6 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-1004https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/06ef9a21-e2b9-40c7-9de5-cff175fa10a5https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-1004

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