Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate as Author on target site
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ExploitHarvest victim form identifier from public page source
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ExecutionOverwrite site-global email-delivery config
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ImpactVictim form submissions routed to attacker inbox
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 | Requires an authenticated account with the WordPress Author role or above on the target site, and the target site must run Royal Addons for Elementor between 1.3.68 and before 1.7.1070 with a contact form whose email-delivery config is keyed on a non-secret, author-chosen identifier exposed in public page source. The attacker reads that identifier from the victim page's public source and overwrites the site-global configuration entry. Limiting factors: the attacker must already hold an Author+ account, so sites that do not provision such accounts to untrusted users (e.g. single-administrator installs) are effectively unexposed; only sites using the plugin's contact-form email feature are affected, and the victim form's identifier must be discoverable in public output. |
| Impact | All signals point to a low real-world priority. The input CVSS base score is 3.8 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N), EPSS is 0.15% (4th percentile), there is no CISA KEV listing, no public exploit code is identified, and the vuln.today decision label is 'monitor' - these are mutually consistent and indicate a non-urgent issue. One internal discrepancy is worth flagging: the supplied vector uses PR:H, but the description says exploitation is available to 'the Author role or above,' which in WordPress is an ordinary authenticated low-privilege user, not an administrator - so PR:L is the more honest metric, which would raise the score modestly (~5.3) without changing the overall low/medium picture. The flaw is a missing-authorization / insecure-direct-object-reference problem (CWE-862): the email-delivery config is stored in a site-global namespace keyed on a non-secret, author-chosen identifier that is exposed in public page source, so any Author+ user can overwrite another user's form configuration. Realistic exposure is confined to multi-author or membership WordPress sites that actually grant Author-or-above accounts to semi-trusted users; single-admin sites face negligible risk because the attacker precondition (an untrusted Author account) does not exist. The confidentiality impact (capturing another user's form submissions at an attacker-controlled address) and integrity impact (tampering the config) are both rated Low. Net: a genuine broken-access-control bug but a targeted, low-probability threat, not a widespread emergency. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | On a multi-author WordPress site running Royal Addons for Elementor, an attacker holding an Author account opens the public source of a victim's published page to recover the form's non-secret, author-chosen identifier, then submits a crafted configuration that overwrites the site-global email-delivery setting for that identifier. Subsequent submissions to the victim's contact form are then delivered to the attacker's address. No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis; the scenario is plausible given AV:N/AC:L and the low barrier of reading the identifier from page source. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 28, 2026
Contact-form submissions in Royal Addons for Elementor before 1.7.1070 can be silently redirected to an attacker-controlled email address by any authenticated user holding the WordPress Author role or higher. The plugin stores form email-delivery settings in a site-global namespace keyed only by an author-chosen identifier exposed in public page source, so an Author+ user can read the key from a victim page, overwrite the configuration, and receive that form's submissions. A vendor fix is available in 1.7.1070; EPSS is 0.15% and no public exploit was identified at time of analysis.
RemediationAI
Upgrade Royal Addons for Elementor to 1.7.1070 or later; this is the vendor-released patch referenced by the advisory at https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ec572544-dd52-48df-a62e-2edc03614ff4/. Verify the installed version in WordPress admin or with WP-CLI (wp plugin list) and update through the WordPress plugin updater or the vendor package. If the update cannot be applied immediately, restrict Author-and-above accounts to trusted users, because the attack requires an existing Author+ account, and review contact-form delivery addresses for unexpected changes; alternatively, disabling the plugin's contact-form email-delivery feature removes the targeted configuration but also stops form notification emails. No fixed version other than 1.7.1070 is listed in the provided data.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
Royal Addons for Elementor is a WordPress plugin that adds Elementor widgets, including contact forms, and persists some form email-delivery settings outside the form/document owner scope. The root cause is CWE-862 Missing Authorization: the plugin does not verify that the current user owns or may modify the target form's configuration, and it keys the site-global entry on a non-secret, author-chosen identifier exposed in public page source. As a result, an authenticated Author+ user can supply another form's identifier and replace its delivery address. The assessed vector is CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N, reflecting limited confidentiality and integrity impact to form submissions rather than site takeover; no CPE strings were provided, and the affected line is 1.3.68 before 1.7.1070.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Exploitation needs only an authenticated Author account (PR:L, not PR:H) and an identifier readable from public source (AC:L); it captures and alters another user's form data, giving C:L/I:L and no availability loss.
Primary rating from Vendor (wpscan).
CVSS VectorVendor: wpscan
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4DescriptionCVE.org
The Royal Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin before 1.7.1070 does not scope a contact form's email delivery configuration to the form's own document or owner, instead storing it in a site-global namespace keyed only on a non-secret, author-chosen identifier that is exposed in public page source, allowing users with the Author role or above to overwrite another user's form configuration and have that form's submissions delivered to an attacker-controlled address.
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EUVD-2026-111705
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