CVE-2023-2189: Staxwp Stax

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Elementor Addons, Widgets and Enhancements – Stax plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the toggle_widget function in versions up to, and including, 1.4.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to enable or disable Elementor widgets.

Affected products

• Staxwp Stax: up to and including 1.4.3

Published 2023-06-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.