Image Hover Effects – Elementor Addon <= 1.4.4 - Missing Authorization

5.4
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-57939
CVSS 5.4 (Medium)
Publicly Published September 22, 2025
Last Updated September 26, 2025
Researcher ch4r0n - FPT Software

Description

The Image Hover Effects – Elementor Addon plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on a function in versions up to, and including, 1.4.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to perform an unauthorized action.

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Vulnerability Details for Image Hover Effects – Elementor Addon

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug image-hover-effects-addon-for-elementor (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Remediation No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
Affected Version
  • <= 1.4.4

Recent vulnerabilities in Image Hover Effects – Elementor Addon

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Image Hover Effects – Elementor Addon <= 1.4.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via eihe_link Parameter CVE-2024-4780 6.4 wesley (wcraft) July 15, 2024
2 Image Hover Effects - Elementor Addon <= 1.4.1 - Authenticated(Contributor+) DOM-based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Image Hover Effects Widget CVE-2024-1166 6.4 Webbernaut May 6, 2024
3 Image Hover Effects – Elementor Addon <= 1.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'eihe_align' CVE-2024-29936 6.4 Abu Hurayra (HurayraIIT) March 25, 2024
4 Image Hover Effects – Elementor Addon <= 1.3.3 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2021-24264 6.4 Ram April 13, 2021

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