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CVE record · CVE-2023-32243

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

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.76 · 99th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.
  • CVSS score 9.8 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.76 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Patchstack) at 12 May 2023, 07:23 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
WPDeveloper Essential Addons for Elementor Package name: essential-addons-for-elementor-lite https://wordpress.org/plugins
  • affected 5.4.0 to 5.7.1, inclusive custom
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2023-32243
CNA
Patchstack
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-287
Tags
Published
12 May 2023
Updated
28 Apr 2026

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
9.8 Critical 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (Patchstack)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.76, the 99th percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 12 May 2023. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.