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CVE-2026-7665

CVE-2026-7665 — Essential Addons for Elementor <= 6.6.4 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Information Exposure via 'load_more' AJAX Handler

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.

Published Updated Sources: NVD, wpdevteam (CNA), SOCRadar CTI

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Exploit code

public exploit, none observed

EPSS

7%

ahead of 94% of scored CVEs

Affects

wpdevteam

Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets

CVSS base

5.3

medium

CISA SSVC assessment

Three decision points CISA publishes for the CVEs it assesses · SSVC 2.0.3. A stakeholder decision, not a severity score.

CISA

Exploitation

None

none · proof-of-concept · active

Automatable

Yes

can an attacker script all four kill-chain steps

Technical impact

Partial

partial · total control of the vulnerable component

Remediation

The vendor's own words where we have them.

Upgrade Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets to a fixed release. Apply vendor patches per advisory and restrict external exposure of the affected component until patched.

First 24 hours

Ordered from the record's own fields — exposure first, because you cannot patch what you have not found.

  • Identify exposed assets running affected vendor/product/version combinations.
  • Prioritize based on EPSS, PoC availability, and external exposure.
  • Search available logs for exploit probes, errors, authentication anomalies, or suspicious child processes matching the vulnerability class.

Affected scope

Vendor, product and version as the advisories word them.

VendorProductVersionsStatus
wpdevteamEssential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets0 to <= 6.6.4Vulnerable

Attack characteristics

The CVSS vector, decoded. It describes the attack, not your exposure to it.

Availability

None

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Scope

Unchanged

Attack Complexity

Low

Attack Vector

Network

Privileges Req

None

User Interaction

None

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

ScoreVersionSeverityExpl.ImpactSource
5.3CVSS 3.1medium3.91.4wordfence.com (CNA), wpdevteam (CNA)

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

What this weakness leads to

MITRE's own consequences and mitigations for the weakness class — the authority's wording, not guidance derived from the CVSS vector.

MITRE

CWE-639 · Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

  • Bypass Protection Mechanism
  • Gain Privileges or Assume Identity

Mitigation: For each and every data access, ensure that the user has sufficient privilege to access the record that is being requested.

Weakness & attack patterns

  • CWE-639

Inferred from the weakness class — not observed against this CVE.

CAPEC-1 · Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLsCAPEC-122 · Privilege Abuse

Public exploit

Capability, not use: code existing is a different claim from anyone running it.

Repositories

1

Detection

Read off the CVSS vector and the weakness class. Starting points, not rules we have tested.

  • Prioritize edge telemetry for network-reachable Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets.
  • Monitor for scanner or exploit-pattern traffic after 1 public PoC repositories were reported.
web/proxy/WAF logsapplication logsnetwork IDS/IPS

Timeline

What happened to this CVE, newest first — with the readings a source repeats on a schedule counted underneath rather than listed.

  1. 2026
  2. Added · CVSS 3.1 5.3 (AV:N)

    Jul 23, 2026 · NVD

  3. Initial · CVE published

    Jun 6, 2026 · NVD

  4. Reported · Disclosed

    Jun 5, 2026 · wpdevteam

  5. Reported · Vendor Notified

    May 1, 2026 · wpdevteam

Source activity

Readings a source repeats on a schedule, counted rather than listed.

  • SVRS is calculatedJun 23, 2026 · SOCRadar CTI
  • Github_Repos · Github repository created, anirudhmakkar/cve-2026-7665Jun 11, 2026 · SOCRadar CTI
  • CVE modified by MITRE: CVSS metrics updated.Jun 6, 2026 · SOCRadar CTI

References

14 on the record

Coverage

1 story from the feeds we poll

Elsewhere on this site

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

  • No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
  • No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
  • No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.
Answered from this record1

What should defenders know first?

CVE-2026-7665 is Essential Addons for Elementor <= 6.6.4 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Information Exposure via 'load_more' AJAX Handler, a medium vulnerability affecting Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets from wpdevteam. The current evidence does not list it in CISA KEV, and the exploit status is: Active exploitation is not confirmed from current sources for CVE-2026-7665. Public exploit evidence is: 1 public PoC repositories reported; 0 marked weaponized in current dataset. The affected-version evidence is listed in the key facts and affected products tables. Defenders should first verify whether exposed or business-critical assets run those versions, then apply vendor patches or mitigations, restrict reachable attack surface, and preserve logs for detection review. CVSS 5.3 describes technical severity, while EPSS 7% helps estimate near-term exploit likelihood; neither replaces asset context. Unknown fields should remain explicit in tickets, and threat actor, IOC, victimology, or payload claims should not be added unless a cited source supports them. Monitor CISA KEV, vendor advisories, NVD changes, public PoC repositories, and internal telemetry for update triggers.