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CVE-2022-4702: Royal Elementor Addons <= 1.3.59 - Insufficient Access Control to Plugin Deactivation
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2023-01-10 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-284
Description
The Royal Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to insufficient access control in the 'wpr_fix_royal_compatibility' AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 1.3.59. This allows any authenticated user, including those with subscriber-level permissions, to deactivate every plugin on the site unless it is part of an extremely limited hardcoded selection. This also switches the site to the 'royal-elementor-kit' theme, potentially resulting in availability issues.
Affected products
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/trunk/admin/templates-kit.php?rev=2833046
- https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2023/01/eleven-vulnerabilities-patched-in-royal-elementor-addons/
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cb47b6cc-87e4-4d29-bbc7-6d7552bc3943?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/trunk/admin/templates-kit.php?rev=2833046
- https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2023/01/eleven-vulnerabilities-patched-in-royal-elementor-addons/
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cb47b6cc-87e4-4d29-bbc7-6d7552bc3943
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