CVE-2026-7665

Essential Addons for Elementor <= 6.6.4 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Information Exposure via 'load_more' AJAX Handler

2026-06-05 14:25
Anirudh Makkar

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 6.6.5
Affected Plugin
Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets
Affected Version
<= 6.6.4
CVSS
5.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-639 · Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE
CVE-2026-7665
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At a glance

CVE-2026-7665 is a medium-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in the Essential Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 6.6.4. 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 6.6.5; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed June 2026, reported by Anirudh Makkar.

Vulnerability Overview

The Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 6.6.4 via the ajax_load_more function due to insufficient restrictions on which posts can be included. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract data from password protected, private, or draft posts that they should not have access to.

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-639: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Reaching this weakness in Essential Addons for Elementor <= 6.6.4 takes no account at all. Authorization bypass through a user-controlled key, often called insecure direct object reference, means the application looks up a record by an identifier from the request without checking that the caller owns it.

Changing a number in the request is enough to read or modify other users' records, which on commerce and membership sites means customer data. For Essential Addons for Elementor the fix is 6.6.5: builds <= 6.6.4 are affected, anything from 6.6.5 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 6.6.5, 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 6.6.5 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-7665https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/861ece65-bee7-4124-b1a8-de9fb0c1cbc7https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-7665

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