CVE-2023-32243· NVD / CVE Program· CNA Patchstack

WordPress Essential Addons for Elementor Plugin 5.4.0-5.7.1 is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation

Noroxi assessment

Priority: This week (action score 62/100)

A ready-made attack module is public (Nuclei); exploiting it takes no special expertise.
Public proof-of-concept code exists (GitHub); there is no record of exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 75.5% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 99.5% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
Fixed version: WPDeveloper Essential Addons for Elementor 5.7.2.
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Don’t wait for the next maintenance window. Upgrade to WPDeveloper Essential Addons for Elementor 5.7.2 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Improper Authentication vulnerability in WPDeveloper Essential Addons for Elementor allows Privilege Escalation. This issue affects Essential Addons for Elementor: from 5.4.0 through 5.7.1.

CriticalCVSS 9.8 · v3.1—Proof of concept Fix available

BDU:2023-03088

Published: May 12, 2023
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 75.5% · 99th percentile
CWE: CWE-287

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This week

Don’t wait for the next maintenance window.

CVSS: 39 / 40 · 9.8 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 23 / 30 · 75.5%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: 9.8
CNA · Patchstack: 9.8; agree

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Vendor	Product	CPE
wpdeveloper	essential addons for elementor	cpe:2.3:a:wpdeveloper:essential_addons_for_elementor

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

wpdeveloper essential addons for elementor5.4.0 and later · before 5.7.1

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Patchstack). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

WPDeveloper Essential Addons for Elementor
- 5.4.0 and later · up to and including 5.7.1affectedfixed in 5.7.2

Same product

wpdeveloper: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2022-0320Essential Addons for Elementor < 5.0.5 - Unauthenticated LFI
40Plan
CVE-2021-4447Essential Addons for Elementor <= 4.6.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Privilege Escalation
35Monitor
CVE-2023-41955WordPress Essential Addons for Elementor plugin <= 5.8.8 - Contributor+ Privilege Escalation vulnerability
35Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2021-24255May 5, 2021 · Essential Addons for Elementor < 4.5.4 - Contributor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
21Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2022-0683Feb 24, 2022 · Essential Addons for Elementor Lite <= 5.0.8 Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
25Monitor
Later →CVE-2023-3779Jul 20, 2023 · Essential Addons For Elementor <=5.8.1 - Unauthenticated MailChimp API Key Disclosure
21Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
WPDeveloper Essential Addons for Elementor	5.7.2	Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

Proof of concept available

A public proof of concept or detection signature exists. Exploit knowledge is out there; don't delay patching.

Evidence

Nuclei detection template ×1
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub ×8

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Public exploit evidence
Source	Kind	Date
Nuclei detection template	Nuclei template CVE-2023-32243	—
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub	stars:1	2023-05-13
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub	stars:4	2023-05-14
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub	stars:86	2023-05-15
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub	stars:0	2023-05-23
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub	stars:0	2023-05-24
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub	stars:2	2023-05-29
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub	stars:5	2023-07-03
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub	stars:0	2025-04-29

Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

PublishedMay 12, 2023
First PoCMay 13, 2023+1 d
TodayOct 24, 2026+1261 d

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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Rafie Muhammad (Patchstack)finder

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)

Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.

TR-23-0266 · May 15, 2023(WordPress Eklenti Zafiyeti)

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Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
No account or password is required.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-287 · Improper Authentication

CVSS vector

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

nvd-primary

Root cause

Authentication is added route by route instead of being enforced in one place. When a route added later bypasses the shared middleware, the session check never runs for it.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-287 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1app.use("/admin", requireSession, adminRouter);
2

3// Route added later skips the middleware
4app.post("/admin-api/config", updateConfig);

Fixed

1const admin = express.Router();
2admin.use(requireSession, requireRole("admin"));
3

4admin.post("/config", updateConfig);
5app.use("/admin", admin);

Attack context

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Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:09 PM UTC

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References

patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/wordpress-essential-addons-for-elementor-plugin-5-4-0-5-7-1-unauthenticated-privilege-escalation-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

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