Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Apr 24, 2026· Updated Apr 24, 2026
CVE-2026-5428
CVE-2026-5428
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.
Affected products
1- Range: <=1.7.1056
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
6- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/tags/1.7.1049/modules/media-grid/widgets/wpr-media-grid.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/tags/1.7.1049/modules/media-grid/widgets/wpr-media-grid.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/trunk/modules/media-grid/widgets/wpr-media-grid.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/trunk/modules/media-grid/widgets/wpr-media-grid.phpnvd
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changesetnvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ba7b8fe5-aa49-4a70-89c9-1b95a30b1142nvd
News mentions
3- Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (April 20, 2026 to April 26, 2026)Wordfence Blog · Apr 30, 2026
- Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (April 13, 2026 to April 19, 2026)Wordfence Blog · Apr 23, 2026
- Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (March 30, 2026 to April 5, 2026)Wordfence Blog · Apr 9, 2026