CVE-2026-5428

Impact

The Royal Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via image captions in the Image Grid/Slider/Carousel widget in versions up to and including 1.7.1056. This is due to insufficient output escaping in the render_post_thumbnail() function, where wp_kses_post() is used instead of esc_attr() for the alt attribute context. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses a page with the malicious image displayed in the media grid widget.

Affected products

Versions were read from the advisory text. No structured product data has been published for this record yet.

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/tags/1.7.1049/modules/media-grid/widgets/wpr-media-grid.php#L6752
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/tags/1.7.1049/modules/media-grid/widgets/wpr-media-grid.php#L6755
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/trunk/modules/media-grid/widgets/wpr-media-grid.php#L6752
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/trunk/modules/media-grid/widgets/wpr-media-grid.php#L6755
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3503209%40royal-elementor-addons&new=3503209%40royal-elementor-addons&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2026-5428
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ba7b8fe5-aa49-4a70-89c9-1b95a30b1142?source=cve