CVE-2024-0516

Royal Elementor Addons and Templates <= 1.3.87 - Missing Authorization via wpr_update_form_action_meta

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
5.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2024-0516
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At a glance

CVE-2024-0516 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 5.3 (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 unauthorized post metadata update due to a missing capability check on the wpr_update_form_action_meta function in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.87. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update certain metadata.

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, and no interaction from a victim user.

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-2024-0516https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d3457b87-c860-4cf2-ac3d-2c6521b629eahttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0516

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