# CVE-2024-50442: WordPress Royal Elementor Addons and Templates plugin <= 1.3.980 - XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability

> An attacker can exploit an XML External Entity vulnerability in the Royal Elementor Addons plugin to read sensitive data or cause denial of service.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 28 Oct 2024
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-pf54-3ggm-97rv

## What is CVE-2024-50442?

CVE-2024-50442 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Royal-Elementor-Addons Royal Elementor Addons, published on 28 Oct 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference vulnerability in WP Royal Royal Elementor Addons royal-elementor-addons allows XML Injection.This issue affects Royal Elementor Addons: from n/a through <= 1.3.980.

Weakness: CWE-611 (Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-50442?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Royal-Elementor-Addons Royal Elementor Addons.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-50442?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-50442 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-50442 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-50442 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Royal-Elementor-Addons Royal Elementor Addons

- [CVE-2023-5360](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5360/): Royal Elementor Addons and Templates < 1.3.79 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-1567](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1567/): Royal Elementor Addons and Templates <= 1.3.94 - Unauthenticated Limited File Upload (high 8.2)
- [CVE-2023-5922](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5922/): Royal Elementor Addons and Templates < 1.3.81 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Post Read (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2024-56226](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-56226/): WordPress Royal Elementor Addons plugin <= 1.7.1001 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2025-39361](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-39361/): WordPress Royal Elementor Addons plugin <= 1.7.1017 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (medium 6.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-50442 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-50442 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Royal-Elementor-Addons Royal Elementor Addons, published on 28 Oct 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-50442 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Royal-Elementor-Addons Royal Elementor Addons. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-50442/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-50442/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-50442
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50442
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-50442

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-50442/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.