CVE-2024-7417

Royal Elementor Addons and Templates <= 1.3.986 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Private Post Disclosure

2024-10-16 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 1.3.987
Affected Plugin: Royal Addons for Elementor – Addons and Templates Kit for Elementor
Affected Version: <= 1.3.986
CVSS: 4.3Medium
Weakness type: CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CVE: CVE-2024-7417

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At a glance

CVE-2024-7417 is a medium-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in the Royal Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.3.986. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Subscriber level or above. The issue is fixed in version 1.3.987; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed October 2024, reported by stealthcopter.

Vulnerability Overview

The Royal Elementor Addons and Templates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.986 via the data_fetch. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to extract data from password protected posts.

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-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Reaching this weakness in Royal Addons for Elementor <= 1.3.986 takes an account at Subscriber level or above. Sensitive information exposure means data the application intended to keep internal is returned to a caller who should not be able to see it.

The disclosed data — credentials, tokens, customer records or internal paths — is usually worth more as material for a follow-up attack than as an end in itself. For Royal Addons for Elementor the fix is 1.3.987: builds <= 1.3.986 are affected, anything from 1.3.987 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.3.987, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The fix is the thing that ends this: Royal Addons for Elementor 1.3.987 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-7417 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c3dfb0b7-5d9f-492b-9a1a-d4445d39c00c https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-7417

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CVSS Vector

4.3

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

Base

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

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