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GSD-2022-4702

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:19

Details

The Royal Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to insufficient access control in the 'wpr_fix_royal_compatibility' AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 1.3.59. This allows any authenticated user, including those with subscriber-level permissions, to deactivate every plugin on the site unless it is part of an extremely limited hardcoded selection. This also switches the site to the 'royal-elementor-kit' theme, potentially resulting in availability issues.

Aliases

CVE-2022-4702

Aliases

CVE-2022-4702

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CVE-2022-4702 (GCVE-0-2022-4702)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-10 16:55 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:23

Title

Royal Elementor Addons <= 1.3.59 - Insufficient Access Control to Plugin Deactivation

Summary

Severity

5.4 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-01-13 16:29 UTC

CWE

CWE-284 - Improper Access Control

Assigner

Wordfence mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-…
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2023/01/eleven-vul…
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…	x_transferred

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
wproyal	Royal Addons for Elementor – Addons and Templates Kit for Elementor	Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.3.59 (semver)

Credits

Ramuel Gall

Show details on NVD website

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