CVE-2022-4701

The Royal Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to insufficient access control in the 'wpr_activate_required_plugins' AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 1.3.59. This allows any authenticated user, including those with subscriber-level permissions, to activate the 'contact-form-7', 'media-library-assistant', or 'woocommerce' plugins if they are installed on the site.

CVSS v3 8.8 HIGH

8.8^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/trunk/admin/templates-kit.php?rev=2833046	Third Party Advisory
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2023/01/eleven-vulnerabilities-patched-in-royal-elementor-addons/	Third Party Advisory
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/55f7e39b-e7a5-462b-b1e4-c3d92038f17e	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:royal-elementor-addons:royal_elementor_addons:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

History

11 Jul 2023, 14:51

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2023-01-10 17:15

Updated : 2024-02-04 23:14

NVD link : CVE-2022-4701

Mitre link : CVE-2022-4701

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2022-4701

JSON object : View

Products Affected

royal-elementor-addons

royal_elementor_addons

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

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