WordPress King Addons Flaw Under Active Attack Lets Hackers Make Admin Accounts

A critical security flaw impacting a WordPress plugin known as King Addons for Elementor has come under active exploitation in the wild.
The vulnerability, CVE-2025-8489 (CVSS score: 9.8), is a case of privilege escalation that allows unauthenticated attackers to grant themselves administrative privileges by simply specifying the administrator user role during registration.
It affects versions

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