CVE-2026-5428 MEDIUM

CVE-2026-5428: Royal Addons for Elementor <= 1.7.1056 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Image Caption Field

Vendor Wproyal
Product Royal Addons for Elementor – Addons and Templates Kit for Elementor
Weakness CWE-79 · XSS
Published April 24, 2026
Last update April 24, 2026

CVSS base score

6.4/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

What the vulnerability does

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.

Key dates

Disclosure timeline

April 24, 2026 CVE published
April 24, 2026 Record updated