CVE-2024-0514

Royal Elementor Addons and Templates <= 1.3.87 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via add_to_compare

2024-02-07 00:00
Francesco Carlucci

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.3.88
Affected Plugin
Royal Addons for Elementor – Addons and Templates Kit for Elementor
Affected Version
<= 1.3.87
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2024-0514
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At a glance

CVE-2024-0514 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Royal Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.3.87. 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 1.3.88; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2024, reported by Francesco Carlucci.

Vulnerability Overview

The Royal Elementor Addons and Templates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.87. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the add_to_compare function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to add items to user compare lists via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on 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)

Reaching this weakness in Royal Addons for Elementor <= 1.3.87 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 1.3.88: builds <= 1.3.87 are affected, anything from 1.3.88 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.3.88, 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 1.3.88 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-0514https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b0955689-43a0-442c-974b-5db5e4171f6ahttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0514

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