Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessIdentify site using vulnerable Royal Addons Mailchimp integration
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ExploitSend unauthenticated subscribe request to plugin endpoint
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ExecutionPlugin uses owner credential with no authorization check
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ImpactInject arbitrary confirmed subscribers into owner's audience
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization checks on every request
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires that the target site has the Royal Addons for Elementor plugin installed at a version in the affected range (1.3.71 to below 1.7.1070) AND has the plugin's Mailchimp integration configured with a stored Mailchimp credential and a reachable subscribe endpoint/audience - without a connected Mailchimp account there is nothing to abuse. Given that precondition, no further conditions apply: the vector is remote and unauthenticated (PR:N/UI:N/AC:L) against the affected feature, with no special user interaction, authentication, or non-default setting needed beyond having the Mailchimp feature enabled. The primary limiting factor is therefore the presence of a configured Mailchimp integration; impact is confined to polluting the owner's Mailchimp audience (integrity), not to the WordPress site itself. |
| Impact | This is a genuine but moderate-severity issue rather than a top-tier emergency. The provided CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) describes a remotely reachable, low-complexity flaw requiring no privileges or user interaction, which maximizes reachability, but the impact is narrow: C:N/I:L/A:N - integrity-only, with no confidentiality or availability loss - yielding a base score of 5.3 (Medium). The supporting signals agree with this moderate posture: EPSS is only 0.15% (4th percentile), there is no CISA KEV listing (not confirmed actively exploited), and the vuln.today Decision label is 'this_month' rather than act_now/emergency. No SSVC exploitation/automatable/technical-impact breakdown is supplied in the input, so that framework cannot be cross-referenced here. The realistic risk is data pollution and abuse of the owner's Mailchimp account (junk/confirmed subscribers, inflated audiences, possible list-reputation and cost consequences) rather than site compromise. Net: a real, easily-reachable flaw worth patching on a routine cycle, not a drop-everything priority. One note of caution - the input Tags label this 'Authentication Bypass', while the CWE (CWE-862) and description describe a missing authorization check; these are related but distinct, and the CWE/description framing should be treated as authoritative. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker, without any account or authentication, sends crafted requests to the plugin's Mailchimp subscription handler on a site running Royal Addons for Elementor with the Mailchimp integration configured. Because no authorization check is performed before the plugin uses the site owner's stored Mailchimp credential, the attacker repeatedly injects arbitrary email addresses and contact details into the owner's chosen Mailchimp audience as confirmed subscribers. No working public exploit is identified in the input; a WPScan advisory documents the issue. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 28, 2026
Unauthenticated attackers can add arbitrary subscriber records to a site owner's Mailchimp audience through Royal Addons for Elementor before 1.7.1070 because the plugin's subscribe path lacks an authorization check. The issue affects sites running versions from 1.3.71 up to but not including 1.7.1070 that have the Mailchimp integration configured with a stored credential and a reachable audience; without that integration there is nothing to abuse. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and EPSS is low at 0.15% (4th percentile), so this is a moderate-severity integrity issue rather than a top-tier emergency.
RemediationAI
Update Royal Addons for Elementor to 1.7.1070 or later; the vendor patch is available and this is the complete fix. If immediate updating is not possible, disconnect the stored Mailchimp credential or disable the plugin's Mailchimp integration until the update can be applied, accepting that legitimate subscriber capture through that integration will stop in the interim; where feasible, also restrict access to the plugin's subscribe endpoint. Consult the WPScan advisory at https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/57461fb8-4a81-47e6-aa91-44bde1993d9a/ for vendor details.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
Royal Addons for Elementor is a WordPress plugin that, among other features, provides a Mailchimp subscription integration using a site-stored Mailchimp API credential. The flaw is CWE-862 (Missing Authorization): the subscribe handler can be reached without a capability or nonce check and uses the stored credential to add a subscriber to an audience selected by the incoming request. This is not a site takeover or code-execution primitive; the assessed impact is limited to integrity of the site owner's Mailchimp audience, since an attacker can inject arbitrary email addresses and contact details as confirmed subscribers. The affected range is 1.3.71 through versions below 1.7.1070, and exploitation requires the Mailchimp feature to be configured with a stored credential.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Remote, unauthenticated, low-complexity abuse of a missing authorization check (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N); impact is limited to injecting data into the owner's Mailchimp audience, so I:L only with C:N/A:N.
Primary rating from Vendor (wpscan).
CVSS VectorVendor: wpscan
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
The Royal Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin before 1.7.1070 does not perform any authorization check before using the site owner's stored Mailchimp credential to add subscriber records to an audience chosen by the request, allowing unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary email addresses and contact details into the site owner's Mailchimp account as confirmed subscribers.
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EUVD-2026-111706
GHSA-w3vc-5h78-6ggp
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