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

2024-10-24 00:00

wesley (wcraft)

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 1.3.981

Affected PluginRoyal Addons for Elementor – Addons and Templates Kit for Elementor

Affected Version<= 1.3.980

CVSS5.4Medium

CVECVE-2024-50442

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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

REMEDIATION: Update to version 1.3.981, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: 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.

External References

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

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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