20,000 WordPress Sites Compromised by Backdoor Vulnerability Enabling Malicious Admin Access

A critical backdoor vulnerability discovered in the LA-Studio Element Kit for the Elementor plugin poses an immediate threat to more than 20,000 WordPress installations. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0920 with a CVSS severity rating of 9.8 (Critical), enables unauthenticated attackers to create administrator accounts and achieve complete site compromise. The function fails to properly restrict […]

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