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Elementor Pro WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Exploited to Hack Sites

Hackers have been exploiting a critical-severity vulnerability in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin to hack websites, WordPress security firm Defiant warns.

A highly popular drag-and-drop website builder, Elementor is a free WordPress plugin with over 10 million installations. Elementor Pro is the paid version that offers additional features, including a Form widget with support for File Upload fields.

The bug, tracked as CVE-2026-32475 (CVSS score of 9.8), is described as an arbitrary file upload issue in the function that handles form submissions.

While submissions are passed through the plugin’s validation and processing mechanisms, when the validation loop encounters an upload slot marked as empty, it triggers an error and returns, aborting the validation of other files in the field.

The normal behavior would be to continue, skipping the empty entry, but the vulnerability results in checks never being applied to the remaining files uploaded through the same form field.

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