CVE-2026-5428

6.4 MEDIUM
Published: April 24, 2026 Modified: April 24, 2026
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Description

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.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0
Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/tags/1.7.1049/modules/media-grid/widgets/wpr-media-grid.php#L6752
Source: security@wordfence.com
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/tags/1.7.1049/modules/media-grid/widgets/wpr-media-grid.php#L6755
Source: security@wordfence.com
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/trunk/modules/media-grid/widgets/wpr-media-grid.php#L6752
Source: security@wordfence.com
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/trunk/modules/media-grid/widgets/wpr-media-grid.php#L6755
Source: security@wordfence.com
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=
Source: security@wordfence.com
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ba7b8fe5-aa49-4a70-89c9-1b95a30b1142?source=cve
Source: security@wordfence.com

6 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
6.4 / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
0.0%
2th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-79

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