Quick answers
- Is CVE-2025-66153 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2025-66153 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2025-66153?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 5.4, published 31 December 2025.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Merkulove Headinger for Elementor <= 1.1.4.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2025-66153?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2025-66153 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network.
- Am I affected by CVE-2025-66153?
- Check whether you run Merkulove Headinger for Elementor at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
This is a broken access control vulnerability (CWE-284) in the Headinger for Elementor WordPress plugin affecting version 1.1.4 and earlier. The vulnerability stems from inadequately configured access controls that fail to properly validate whether a user has authorization to perform specific actions. An authenticated attacker with subscriber-level privileges can exploit this to access restricted functionality or data. The attack requires only network access and valid WordPress user credentials at the subscriber level or above, with no additional user interaction needed. No official patch is currently available as of the disclosure date.
Affected products
- merkulove Headinger for Elementor <= 1.1.4
Timeline
- 2025-11-10: disclosed: Reported by Phat RiO
- 2025-12-31: advisory: Published by Patchstack