CVE-2022-4707

Royal Elementor Addons <= 1.3.59 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Menu Template creation

2023-01-10 00:00
Ram

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.3.60
Affected Plugin
Royal Addons for Elementor – Addons and Templates Kit for Elementor
Affected Version
<= 1.3.59
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2022-4707
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At a glance

CVE-2022-4707 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Royal Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.3.59. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.3.60; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2023, reported by Ram.

Vulnerability Overview

The Royal Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.3.59. This is due to missing nonce validation in the 'wpr_create_mega_menu_template' AJAX function. This allows unauthenticated attackers to create Mega Menu templates, granted they can trick an administrator into performing an action, such as clicking a link.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site.

CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Royal Addons for Elementor <= 1.3.59 carries this weakness at wpr_create_mega_menu_template, and reaching it takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site request forgery abuses the fact that browsers attach a victim's cookies to any request, so a state-changing action that only checks who you are, not whether you meant to act, can be triggered from another site.

An attacker who gets a logged-in user to load a crafted page can perform that action as them, with the impact scaling to whatever the victim's role is allowed to do. For Royal Addons for Elementor the fix is 1.3.60: builds <= 1.3.59 are affected, anything from 1.3.60 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.3.60, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Royal Addons for Elementor: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Royal Addons for Elementor 1.3.60 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-4707https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/55db7d81-7ffb-49da-b64e-23e892bddc57https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4707

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