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

Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
CVE CVE-2024-50442
CVSS Medium (5.4)
Publicly Published October 24, 2024
Last Updated October 31, 2024
Researcher wesley (wcraft)
Description

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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug royal-elementor-addons (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.3.980
Patched Version
  • 1.3.981
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