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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.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":6.4,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-09","score":0.00264,"percentile":0.18299,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-79"],"published":"2026-04-24T05:29:38Z","modified":"2026-08-14T21:31:09Z","products":[{"vendor":"wproyal","product":"royal addons for elementor – addons and templates kit for elementor"}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ba7b8fe5-aa49-4a70-89c9-1b95a30b1142?source=cve"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/trunk/modules/media-grid/widgets/wpr-media-grid.php#L6755"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/tags/1.7.1049/modules/media-grid/widgets/wpr-media-grid.php#L6755"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/trunk/modules/media-grid/widgets/wpr-media-grid.php#L6752"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/tags/1.7.1049/modules/media-grid/widgets/wpr-media-grid.php#L6752"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=\u0026sfph_mail=\u0026reponame=\u0026old=3503209%40royal-elementor-addons\u0026new=3503209%40royal-elementor-addons\u0026sfp_email=\u0026sfph_mail="},{"url":"https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2026-5428"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-5428"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f4r3-xfjm-5x8p"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-5428","title":"Royal Addons for Elementor \u003c= 1.7.1056 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Image Caption Field","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. 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