Royal Elementor Kit <= 1.0.116 - Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Transient Update
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.0.117
- Affected Theme
- Royal Elementor Kit
- Affected Version
<= 1.0.116- CVSS
- 4.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE-2024-0835
At a glance
CVE-2024-0835 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Royal Elementor Kit WordPress theme, affecting versions <= 1.0.116. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). The root cause is a missing authorization check on a reachable function. The issue is fixed in version 1.0.117; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2024, reported by Sean Murphy.
Vulnerability Overview
The Royal Elementor Kit theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized arbitrary transient update due to a missing capability check on the dismissed_handler function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.116. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber access or higher, to update arbitrary transients. Note, that these transients can only be updated to true and not arbitrary values.
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-862: Missing Authorization
Reaching this weakness in Royal Elementor Kit <= 1.0.116 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.
Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For Royal Elementor Kit the fix is 1.0.117: builds <= 1.0.116 are affected, anything from 1.0.117 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.0.117, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Royal Elementor Kit 1.0.117 closes this, and updating the theme is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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