CVE-2024-50442

Royal Elementor Addons <= 1.3.980 - Authenticated (Author+) External Entity Injection

2024-10-24 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 1.3.981
Affected Plugin: Royal Addons for Elementor – Addons and Templates Kit for Elementor
Affected Version: <= 1.3.980
CVSS: 5.4Medium
Weakness type: CWE-611 · Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
CVE: CVE-2024-50442

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At a glance

CVE-2024-50442 is a medium-severity Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference vulnerability in the Royal Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.3.980. It carries a CVSS score of 5.4 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Author level or above. The issue is fixed in version 1.3.981; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed October 2024, reported by wesley (wcraft).

Vulnerability Overview

The Royal Elementor Addons and Templates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to External Entity Injection in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.980. This is due to improper restriction and sanitization on external entities. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to inject external entities and perform other attacks like SSRF and remote code execution in the proper configuration.

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 interaction from a victim user.

CWE-611: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

The product processes an XML document that can contain XML entities with URIs that resolve to documents outside of the intended sphere of control, causing the product to embed incorrect documents into its output.

Remediation

Update to version 1.3.981, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

An attacker needs Author access first, so the firewall sees the attempt as traffic from a logged-in account: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Royal Addons for Elementor 1.3.981 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-50442 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/30a89e75-2ab1-4e65-8646-b100efed5dbd https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50442

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CVSS Vector

5.4

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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