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CVE-2022-4711: Royal Elementor Addons <= 1.3.59 - Insufficient Access Control to Menu Settings Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• 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_save_mega_menu_settings' AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 1.3.59. This allows any authenticated user, including those with subscriber-level permissions, to enable and modify Mega Menu settings for any menu item.

Affected products

• wproyal Royal Addons for Elementor – Addons and Templates Kit for Elementor: before 1.3.60 — fixed in 1.3.60

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: wproyal Royal Addons for Elementor – Addons and Templates Kit for Elementor 1.3.60. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/trunk/admin/mega-menu.php?rev=2809656
• https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2023/01/eleven-vulnerabilities-patched-in-royal-elementor-addons/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c23e9810-40ea-43e2-9292-f05f300a7ddf?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/trunk/admin/mega-menu.php?rev=2809656
• https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2023/01/eleven-vulnerabilities-patched-in-royal-elementor-addons/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c23e9810-40ea-43e2-9292-f05f300a7ddf

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