Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-85017 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-85017 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-85017?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.5, published 20 September 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Unlimited Elements for Elementor before 2.0.20.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-85017?
- A patch was published on 2026-09-20: Fully resolved in 2.0.20; partial fix in 2.0.18–2.0.19 Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
- How is CVE-2026-85017 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a software library.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-85017?
- Check whether you run Unlimited Elements 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
The vulnerability is a PHP object injection (CWE-502) in an AJAX action handler that deserializes attacker-controlled data without proper capability checks. Authenticated attackers with subscriber-level privileges can craft malicious serialized PHP objects to achieve code execution. A partial fix in versions 2.0.18–2.0.19 elevated the required privilege to editor-level, and the issue was fully patched in version 2.0.20.
Affected products
- Unlimited Elements Unlimited Elements For Elementor before 2.0.20
Timeline
- 2026-09-18: disclosed
- 2026-09-20: patched: Fully resolved in 2.0.20; partial fix in 2.0.18–2.0.19