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CVE-2024-4489: Royal Elementor Addons and Templates <= 1.3.976 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG Uploads

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-06-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Royal Elementor Addons and Templates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘custom_upload_mimes’ function in versions up to, and including, 1.3.976 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• wproyal Royal Addons for Elementor – Addons and Templates Kit for Elementor: before 1.3.977 — fixed in 1.3.977

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: wproyal Royal Addons for Elementor – Addons and Templates Kit for Elementor 1.3.977. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/tags/1.3.973/admin/templates-kit.php#L896
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3097775/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/57bf222b-5f49-46e2-be84-3e6444807096?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/tags/1.3.973/admin/templates-kit.php#L896
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3097775/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/57bf222b-5f49-46e2-be84-3e6444807096?source=cve

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