diff --git a/addons/web_editor/static/src/js/rte.summernote.js b/addons/web_editor/static/src/js/rte.summernote.js
index 866d0d68e84..5f28c9510bb 100644
--- a/addons/web_editor/static/src/js/rte.summernote.js
+++ b/addons/web_editor/static/src/js/rte.summernote.js
@@ -398,7 +398,9 @@ eventHandler.modules.imageDialog.showImageDialog = function ($editable) {
     if (r.sc.tagName && r.sc.childNodes.length) {
         r.sc = r.sc.childNodes[r.so];
     }
-    new widgets.MediaDialog(null, {}, $editable, dom.isImg(r.sc) ? r.sc : null).open();
+    new widgets.MediaDialog(null, {}, $editable, $(r.sc).parents().addBack().filter(function (i, el) {
+        return dom.isImg(el);
+    })[0]).open();
     return new $.Deferred().reject();
 };
 $.summernote.pluginEvents.alt = function (event, editor, layoutInfo, sorted) {