diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/alexcojocaru/mojo/elasticsearch/ElasticSearchNode.java b/src/main/java/com/github/alexcojocaru/mojo/elasticsearch/ElasticSearchNode.java
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/github/alexcojocaru/mojo/elasticsearch/ElasticSearchNode.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/github/alexcojocaru/mojo/elasticsearch/ElasticSearchNode.java
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ public class ElasticSearchNode
                 .put("network.host", "127.0.0.1")
                 .put("discovery.zen.ping.timeout", "3ms")
                 .put("discovery.zen.ping.multicast.enabled", false)
+                .put("http.cors.enabled", true)
                 .put(settings)
                 .build();
enable HTTP CORS on the local node, to allow web plugins to talk to it

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