Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (ELEWOR1773333877)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Elementor's Vulnerability and lateral movement inside company's environment.
- Overview of affected data sets, including SSNs and PHI, and why they materially increase incident severity.
- How Rankiteo’s incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score.
- How this cyber incident impacts Elementor Rankiteo cyber scoring and cyber rating.
- Rankiteo’s MITRE ATT&CK correlation analysis for this incident, with associated confidence level.
Full Incident Analysis Transcript
In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the Elementor breach identified under incident ID ELEWOR1773333877.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Elementor's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/elementor, the number of followers: 73003, the industry type: Technology, Information and Internet and the number of employees: 509 employees
After the initial compromise, the video explains how Rankiteo's incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score. The incident score before the incident was 772 and after the incident was 755 with a difference of -17 which is could be a good indicator of the severity and impact of the incident.
In the next step of the video, we will analyze in more details the incident and the impact it had on Elementor and their customers.
Ally WordPress Plugin (Elementor) recently reported "High-Severity SQL Injection Flaw in Ally WordPress Plugin Exposed 246,600 Sites", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
A critical SQL injection vulnerability (CVE-2026-2413) in the Ally WordPress plugin, a web accessibility tool from Elementor, left approximately 246,600 websites vulnerable to data theft.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting 246,600 websites, and exposing Sensitive information.
In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Patch released (version 4.1.0), and began remediation that includes Update to version 4.1.0, and stakeholders are being briefed through WordPress urged users to immediately update.
The case underscores how teams are taking away lessons such as The incident underscores the persistent threat of plugin-based vulnerabilities in the WordPress ecosystem, where outdated or unsupported extensions remain a primary attack vector, and recommending next steps like Immediately update Ally WordPress plugin to version 4.1.0 and ensure core WordPress platform is updated to the latest version, with advisories going out to stakeholders covering WordPress urged users to immediately update both Ally and the core platform.
Finally, we try to match the incident with the MITRE ATT&CK framework to see if there is any correlation between the incident and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
The MITRE ATT&CK framework is a knowledge base of techniques and sub-techniques that are used to describe the tactics and procedures of cyber adversaries. It is a powerful tool for understanding the threat landscape and for developing effective defense strategies.
MITRE ATT&CK® Correlation Analysis
Rankiteo's analysis has identified several MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques associated with this incident, each with varying levels of confidence based on available evidence. Under the Initial Access tactic, the analysis identified Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating critical SQL injection vulnerability (CVE-2026-2413) in the Ally WordPress plugin. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Command and Scripting Interpreter: JavaScript (T1059.007) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating malicious SQL queries into databases via time-based blind SQL injection techniques. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Credentials from Password Stores (T1555) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating extraction of sensitive information via SQL injection. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Cloud Storage (T1530) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating 246,600 websites vulnerable to data theft via SQL injection and Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating sensitive information extraction enabled via SQL injection. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltration possible via SQL injection techniques. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Endpoint Denial of Service: Application or System Exploitation (T1499.004) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating sQL injection vulnerability could lead to database disruption. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Elementor Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/elementor/incident/ELEWOR1773333877
- Elementor CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/elementor
- Elementor Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/elewor1773333877-wordpress-elementor-vulnerability-february-2026/
- Elementor CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/elementor/history
- Elementor CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/another-worrying-wordpress-plugin-security-flaw-could-put-250-000-websites-at-risk
- Rankiteo A.I CyberSecurity Rating methodology: https://www.rankiteo.com/Images/rankiteo_algo.pdf
- Rankiteo TPRM Scoring methodology: https://static.rankiteo.com/model/rankiteo_tprm_methodology.pdf