CVE-2022-4700 — The Royal Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to insufficient ac

The Royal Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to insufficient access control in the 'wpr_activate_required_theme' AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 1.3.59. This allows any authenticated user, including those with subscriber-level permissions,

01What is this vulnerability?

The Royal Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to insufficient access control in the 'wpr_activate_required_theme' AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 1.3.59. This allows any authenticated user, including those with subscriber-level permissions, to activate the 'royal-elementor-kit' theme. If no such theme is installed doing so can also impact site availability as the…

02Affected products

No structured affected-product list available — see references below for vendor advisories.

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-01-10T17:15:11.123
• Last modified: 2026-04-08T19:17:57.227

09References

• plugins.trac.wordpress.org — https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/trunk/admin/te…
• www.wordfence.com — https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2023/01/eleven-vulnerabilities-patched-in-royal-e…
• www.wordfence.com — https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cdd464ad-24bc-4922-8bf…
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org — https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/trunk/admin/te…
• www.wordfence.com — https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2023/01/eleven-vulnerabilities-patched-in-royal-e…
• www.wordfence.com — https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cdd464ad-24bc-4922-8bf…