CVE-2023-5360Royal Elementor Addons and Templates < 1.3.79 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 86.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The Royal Elementor Addons and Templates WordPress plugin before 1.3.79 does not properly validate uploaded files, which could allow unauthenticated users to upload arbitrary files, such as PHP and achieve RCE.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module, a Nuclei template and an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits4
Metasploit modules1 module
- WordPress Royal Elementor Addons RCE (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/multi/http/wp_royal_elementor_addons_rceRank excellentdisclosed 23 Nov 2023
Nuclei templates1 template
- WordPress Royal Elementor Addons Plugin <= 1.3.78 - Arbitrary File Upload (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2023/CVE-2023-5360.yamlSeverity critical
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Royal Elementor Addons and Templates 1.3.78 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 52127webapps, multiplepublished 5 Apr 2025Not verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/281518ff-7816-4007-b712-63aed7828b34 (opens in a new tab)exploitvdb-entrytechnical-descriptionx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By WPScan
- 28 days later
· 28 days later
Published
- 16 months later
· 16 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 86.4% · top 0.3% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
Unknown · Royal Elementor Addons and Templates
- affected < 1.3.79
References
References2
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/281518ff-7816-4007-b712-63aed7828b34 (opens in a new tab)exploitvdb-entrytechnical-descriptionx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/175992/WordPress-Royal-Elementor-Addons-And-Templates-Remote-Shell-Upload.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-57676 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2023-5360)Record last updated .