CVE-2026-5162
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
17/04/2026
Last modified:
22/04/2026
Description
The Royal Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Instagram Feed widget's 'instagram_follow_text' setting in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.1056 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
6.40
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/trunk/modules/instagram-feed/widgets/wpr-instagram-feed.php#L5334
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/trunk/modules/instagram-feed/widgets/wpr-instagram-feed.php#L5528
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/royal-elementor-addons/trunk/modules/instagram-feed/widgets/wpr-instagram-feed.php#L5623
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3503219/royal-elementor-addons/trunk/modules/instagram-feed/widgets/wpr-instagram-feed.php
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/16d083bc-d726-4291-bc6d-a7bf83fa78c3?source=cve



