CVE-2025-5338 Cross-site scripting in Royal Addons for Elementor – Addons and Templates Kit for Elementor

Medium 6.4 Published 26 Jun 2025 Updated 8 Apr 2026

Authenticated contributors can inject arbitrary scripts into WordPress pages via Royal Elementor Addons widgets, leading to stored XSS attacks.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2025-5338?

CVE-2025-5338 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Royal-Elementor-Addons Royal Elementor Addons, published on 26 Jun 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Royal Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via multiple widgets in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.1028 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-5338?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Royal-Elementor-Addons Royal Elementor Addons.

How do I fix CVE-2025-5338?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-5338 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2025-5338 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-5338 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Royal-Elementor-Addons Royal Elementor Addons vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-53r4-4j62-6j4c.