CVE-2023-5922: Royal Elementor Addons and Templates < 1.3.81 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Post Read
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 30/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.71% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 53.4% of all records.
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
- Fixed version: Unknown Royal Elementor Addons and Templates 1.3.81.
Low priority for now. Upgrade to Unknown Royal Elementor Addons and Templates 1.3.81 or later.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
The Royal Elementor Addons and Templates WordPress plugin before 1.3.81 does not ensure that users accessing posts via an AJAX action (and REST endpoint, currently disabled in the plugin) have the right to do so, allowing unauthenticated users to access arbitrary draft, private and password protected posts/pages content
- Published
- Jan 16, 2024
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.7% · 53th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-639
Report tools
Action score
30
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 30 / 40 · 7.5 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.7%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- proof of concept
- Automatable
- yes
- Technical impact
- partial
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| royal-elementor-addons | royal elementor addons | cpe:2.3:a:royal-elementor-addons:royal_elementor_addons |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- royal-elementor-addons royal elementor addonsbefore 1.3.81
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (WPScan). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
Unknown Royal Elementor Addons and Templates
- before 1.3.81affected · semver
Same product
royal-elementor-addons: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2023-5360Royal Elementor Addons and Templates < 1.3.79 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload65This week
- CVE-2024-32786WordPress Royal Elementor Addons and Templates plugin <= 1.3.93 - IP Bypass vulnerability39Monitor
- CVE-2024-1567Royal Elementor Addons and Templates <= 1.3.94 - Unauthenticated Limited File Upload39Monitor
Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2023-3709Jul 17, 2023 · Royal Elementor Addons <=1.3.70 - Unauthenticated MailChimp API Key Disclosure21Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2022-47175Oct 6, 2023 · WordPress Royal Elementor Addons Plugin <= 1.3.75 is vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)35Monitor
- Later →CVE-2024-0511Feb 8, 2024 · Royal Elementor Addons and Templates <= 1.3.87 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via wpr_update_form_action_meta17Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown Royal Elementor Addons and Templates | 1.3.81 | Vendor (CNA) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
- WPScancoordinator
- Krzysztof Zając (CERT PL)finder
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
- CVE-2024-10798317 days apartRoyal Elementor Addons and Templates <= 1.7.1003 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Post Disclosure17Monitor
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- none
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- None
- Availability impact
- None
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-639 · Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled KeyCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
nvd-primary
Root cause
The endpoint fetches the record by the ID sent in the request, but never checks whether the record belongs to the requesting user.
The bug in code
The whole CWE-639 classA representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.
Vulnerable
const invoice = await Invoice.findById(req.params.id);
res.json(invoice);Fixed
const invoice = await Invoice.findOne({
id: req.params.id,
ownerId: req.user.id,
});
if (!invoice) return res.sendStatus(404);
res.json(invoice);Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.
Change log
- Fix✗ → ✓
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