Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessHost malicious CSRF page
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DeliveryLure logged-in admin to visit
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ExploitBrowser replays authenticated session
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ExecutionForged request executes state change
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ImpactPlugin/site configuration altered
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V3 - Web Frontend Security Anti-CSRF tokens, SameSite cookies
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Initial Access The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires an authenticated user - realistically an administrator or privileged operator - to have an active WordPress session and to be tricked into interacting with attacker-controlled content (CVSS UI:R), for example visiting a malicious page or clicking a crafted link. There is no evidence of an authentication requirement on the attacker side (PR:N), but the attack cannot succeed without a valid victim session and that victim's interaction; it also depends on the site running Easy Elementor Addons ≤2.3.7. The mandatory user interaction and dependency on a logged-in privileged victim are the principal factors limiting real-world exploitation, restricting it to social-engineering-driven, targeted attempts rather than unattended mass exploitation. |
| Impact | Signals are mixed. The Patchstack/NVD-style CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H, 9.6 Critical) is aggressive for a CSRF: it assumes the forged action yields full confidentiality, integrity, and availability loss with a scope change, which would only hold if the vulnerable action enables site takeover (e.g., injecting content/settings that lead to code execution). In practice CSRF impact is bounded by the sensitivity of the single action reachable without a nonce, and no EPSS score, POC, or KEV entry is present to corroborate real-world exploitation - so this reads as a high-CVSS rating whose worst-case impact assumptions are not independently substantiated by the sparse description. The genuine limiting factor is UI:R: an authenticated administrator must be actively induced to visit or interact with attacker content while logged in, which narrows opportunistic mass exploitation. Defenders running the plugin should still patch promptly given the Critical rating and the low technical bar to craft a CSRF, but the absence of exploit evidence suggests prioritizing it as an important-but-not-emergency fix rather than treating it as confirmed active compromise. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker crafts a malicious web page or email containing a hidden form or image that auto-submits a request to a vulnerable Easy Elementor Addons endpoint. When a logged-in WordPress administrator is lured into loading that content, their browser silently replays their authenticated session against the site, performing the attacker-chosen state change. No public exploit is identified at time of analysis, so a working PoC would need to be developed against the specific unprotected action. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Aug 20, 2026
Cross-Site Request Forgery in HashThemes Easy Elementor Addons (WordPress plugin) affects all versions up to and including 2.3.7, letting a remote attacker forge state-changing requests that are executed with a victim administrator's privileges when the victim is lured into interacting with attacker-controlled content. Reported by Patchstack (CVE-2026-28164 / EUVD-2026-63327) with a vendor-assigned CVSS of 9.6; no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV. Exploitation hinges on tricking an authenticated user into triggering the forged request, since the plugin fails to validate request authenticity (CWE-352).
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis - the input provides no fixed version, so upgrade to the latest available release from the vendor/WordPress.org once a version higher than 2.3.7 is published and confirm via the Patchstack advisory (https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/easy-elementor-addons/vulnerability/wordpress-easy-elementor-addons-plugin-2-3-7-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-vulnerability?_s_id=cve). Until a fixed build is confirmed, compensating controls include deploying a WAF or virtual patch (Patchstack and similar WordPress firewalls offer CSRF rules) to enforce referer/origin checks on the plugin's admin actions; restricting wp-admin access to trusted IPs to reduce the chance an authenticated session is exploited; and, if the plugin's functionality is non-essential, deactivating and removing it entirely (trade-off: any Elementor widgets it provides will break on pages that use them). Administrators should also avoid clicking untrusted links while logged into WordPress, as user interaction is required to trigger the forgery.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The affected component is the Easy Elementor Addons plugin (cpe:2.3:a:hashthemes:easy_elementor_addons), an add-on pack that extends the Elementor page builder within WordPress. The root cause is CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery): one or more of the plugin's state-changing actions (typically admin-facing AJAX handlers or settings endpoints in WordPress plugins) do not enforce anti-CSRF nonces or equivalent origin/token validation. Because WordPress relies on session cookies for administrative actions, a browser carrying a valid admin session will automatically attach those cookies to a cross-origin request, so a request forged by an external site is processed as if the administrator had initiated it. The advisory does not enumerate which specific action is vulnerable or what precise change it performs.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Network CSRF needs no attacker privileges but requires victim interaction (UI:R); with no disclosed action detail I assess a single state change (I:L), no inherent confidentiality/availability loss, and no scope change, unlike the reporter's C:H/I:H/A:H/S:C.
Primary rating from Vendor (Patchstack).
CVSS VectorVendor: Patchstack
DescriptionCVE.org
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in HashThemes Easy Elementor Addons allows Cross Site Request Forgery.
This issue affects Easy Elementor Addons: from n/a through 2.3.7.
Executive ViewAI
HashThemes Easy Elementor Addons (WordPress plugin, versions ≤2.3.7) contains a critical CSRF vulnerability (CVSS 9.6) that allows remote attackers to execute unauthorized administrative actions on affected WordPress sites. An attacker can trick a site administrator into visiting a malicious link to modify site configuration, create backdoor accounts, or inject malicious content, effectively compromising full administrative access. Organizations using this plugin face immediate risk of data breach, malware injection, and operational disruption.
No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis. Interim mitigations: disable or remove the plugin as primary control; deploy Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules blocking POST requests to affected plugin endpoints; restrict WordPress administrator dashboard to whitelisted IP addresses; enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all administrator accounts; enable enhanced WordPress audit logging with SIEM integration to detect unauthorized admin activity; implement server-level request validation; monitor HashThemes advisories for patch release and deploy immediately upon availability.
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
Priority Score
Attack Technique
Cross-Site Request Forgery exploits the automatic credential inclusion behavior of web browsers.
EUVD-2026-63327
GHSA-cghh-6x9c-84pf
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
Vulnrichment
VulDB
Exploit-DB