wproyal Royal Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 1.7.1056 on WordPress Instagram Feed Widget instagram_follow_text cross site scripting

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A vulnerability was found in wproyal Royal Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 1.7.1056 on WordPress and classified as problematic. The affected element is the function instagram_follow_text of the component Instagram Feed Widget. The manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-5159. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in wproyal Royal Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 1.7.1056 on WordPress. Affected is the function instagram_follow_text of the component Instagram Feed Widget. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. This is going to have an impact on integrity. CVE summarizes:

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. Note that exploitation requires that an administrator has previously configured the Instagram Feed widget with a valid Instagram access token on the site.

The weakness was disclosed by Justin Nam. The advisory is shared for download at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-5159 since 03/30/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

Upgrading to version 1.7.1050 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-27189). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• wproyal

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• Royal Addons for Elementor Plugin

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• 1.7.1056

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