CVE-2025-14163

Premium Addons for Elementor <= 4.11.53 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via 'insert_inner_template'

2025-12-22 00:00
Dmitrii Ignatyev

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 4.11.54
Affected Plugin
Premium Addons for Elementor – Elementor Templates, Widgets & MCP Tools
Affected Version
<= 4.11.53
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2025-14163
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At a glance

CVE-2025-14163 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Premium Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 4.11.53. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 4.11.54; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed December 2025, reported by Dmitrii Ignatyev.

Vulnerability Overview

The Premium Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 4.11.53. This is due to missing nonce validation in the 'insert_inner_template' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to create arbitrary Elementor templates via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator or other user with the edit_posts capability 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.

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

Premium Addons for Elementor <= 4.11.53 carries this weakness at insert_inner_template, and reaching it 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 Premium Addons for Elementor the fix is 4.11.54: builds <= 4.11.53 are affected, anything from 4.11.54 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 4.11.54, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Premium Addons for Elementor: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Premium Addons for Elementor 4.11.54 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-14163https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/77b57f2a-0b46-4b4a-bdca-1c5218d739cehttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14163

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