# CVE-2026-17585: Royal Addons for Elementor sensitive information exposure

Source: https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-17585-royal-addons-for-elementor-sensitive-information-exposure  
Publisher: Junglewise Threat Intelligence, https://junglewise.ai/threats  
Published: 2026-09-12. Updated: 2026-09-26  
License: CC BY 4.0 with a link back

CVE-2026-17585 · Severity: medium · CVSS 5.3 · Published 2026-09-12

The Royal Addons for Elementor is a popular WordPress plugin that provides additional page-building components and design templates. A vulnerability in versions up to 1.7.1066 allows unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive metadata from published posts by exploiting a flaw in the search functionality. Since the required security token is publicly exposed on all pages using the plugin, attackers can conduct this attack without needing any special access or authentication.

## Quick answers

**Is CVE-2026-17585 exploited in the wild?** No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-17585 being exploited in the wild.

**How severe is CVE-2026-17585?** Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 5.3, published 12 September 2026.

**Which products and versions are affected?** Royal Elementor Addons Royal Addons for Elementor up to 1.7.1066.

**Is there a fix for CVE-2026-17585?** No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.

**How is CVE-2026-17585 attacked?** It is attacked over the network, in a software library.

**Am I affected by CVE-2026-17585?** Check whether anything you run is named in the advisory. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

## Technical details

The vulnerability is a sensitive information exposure flaw in the 'wpr_keyword' parameter of the Royal Addons for Elementor plugin. The vulnerable AJAX search module fails to properly validate or restrict access to postmeta queries, allowing attackers to perform character-by-character substring matching across the wp_postmeta table to extract arbitrary metadata values from published posts. No authenticated session is required because the nonce (security token) is emitted publicly via wp_localize_script on any page loading a Royal Elementor widget. Attackers can systematically query the database to reconstruct sensitive metadata field values.

## Affected products

- Royal Elementor Addons Royal Addons for Elementor up to 1.7.1066

## Timeline

- 2026-09-12: disclosed

## References

- [https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/tags/1.7.1061/classes/modules/wpr-ajax-search.php](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/tags/1.7.1061/classes/modules/wpr-ajax-search.php)
- [https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/tags/1.7.1061/classes/modules/wpr-ajax-search.php](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/tags/1.7.1061/classes/modules/wpr-ajax-search.php)