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CVE-2024-0835: Royal Elementor Kit <= 1.0.116 - Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Transient Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-02-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

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.

Affected products

• WP Royal Royal Elementor Kit: through 1.0.116

References

• https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=216524%40royal-elementor-kit&new=216524%40royal-elementor-kit&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://wordpress.org/themes/royal-elementor-kit/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/603b6c52-48eb-4e8c-a2c1-77b12a2b1a2c?source=cve
• https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=216524%40royal-elementor-kit&new=216524%40royal-elementor-kit&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://wordpress.org/themes/royal-elementor-kit/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/603b6c52-48eb-4e8c-a2c1-77b12a2b1a2c?source=cve

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