diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 726e90887d..1dcd663fe7 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
         "@processmaker/vue-form-elements": "0.65.6",
         "@processmaker/vue-multiselect": "2.3.0",
         "@tinymce/tinymce-vue": "2.0.0",
-        "axios": "^0.27.2",
+        "axios": "^1.15.2",
         "bootstrap": "^4.5.3",
         "bootstrap-vue": "^2.18.1",
         "bpmn-font": "^0.10.0",
diff --git a/resources/js/bootstrap.js b/resources/js/bootstrap.js
index 0ea799903c..e8dceb55cc 100644
--- a/resources/js/bootstrap.js
+++ b/resources/js/bootstrap.js
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ import * as bootstrap from "bootstrap";
 import TenantAwareEcho from "./common/TenantAwareEcho";
 import { initSessionSync } from "./common/sessionSync";
 import Router from "vue-router";
-import ScreenBuilder, { initializeScreenCache } from "@processmaker/screen-builder";
+import ScreenBuilder from "@processmaker/screen-builder";
+import attachScreenCacheAdapter from "./common/attachScreenCacheAdapter";
 import * as VueDeepSet from "vue-deepset";
 
 /**
@@ -393,8 +394,9 @@ window.ProcessMaker.screen = {
   cacheTimeout: Number(screenCacheTimeout),
   secureHandlerToggleVisible: !!Number(screenSecureHandlerToggleVisible?.content),
 };
-// Initialize screen-builder cache
-initializeScreenCache(window.ProcessMaker.apiClient, window.ProcessMaker.screen);
+// Axios 1.x uses adapter name list on defaults.adapter, not a function. screen-builder's
+// initializeScreenCache passes that through to cacheAdapterEnhancer and breaks dispatch.
+attachScreenCacheAdapter(window.ProcessMaker.apiClient, window.ProcessMaker.screen);
 
 const clickTab = () => {
   const { hash } = window.location;
diff --git a/resources/js/common/attachScreenCacheAdapter.js b/resources/js/common/attachScreenCacheAdapter.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f9c41a4949
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/js/common/attachScreenCacheAdapter.js
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+import { cacheAdapterEnhancer } from "axios-extensions";
+import * as LRUCacheModule from "lru-cache";
+
+// Root install may hoist lru-cache@5 (default export only) or v10 (named LRUCache); screen-builder uses v10 API.
+const LRUCache = LRUCacheModule.LRUCache ?? LRUCacheModule.default;
+
+/**
+ * Wraps the axios HTTP adapter with screen-builder GET caching (axios-extensions).
+ * Axios 1.x sets defaults.adapter to adapter names (e.g. ['xhr','http','fetch']), not a
+ * function; cacheAdapterEnhancer must receive the resolved adapter from getAdapter().
+ *
+ * @param {import("axios").AxiosInstance} apiClient
+ * @param {{ cacheEnabled: boolean, cacheTimeout: number }} screen
+ */
+export default function attachScreenCacheAdapter(apiClient, screen) {
+  const raw = apiClient.defaults.adapter;
+  const baseAdapter = typeof raw === "function"
+    ? raw
+    : apiClient.getAdapter(raw);
+
+  apiClient.defaults.adapter = cacheAdapterEnhancer(baseAdapter, {
+    enabledByDefault: screen.cacheEnabled,
+    cacheFlag: "useCache",
+    defaultCache: new LRUCache({
+      max: 100,
+      ttl: screen.cacheTimeout,
+      maxAge: screen.cacheTimeout,
+    }),
+  });
+}
diff --git a/resources/js/next/screenBuilder.js b/resources/js/next/screenBuilder.js
index d0d009849e..b86d8d3c7e 100644
--- a/resources/js/next/screenBuilder.js
+++ b/resources/js/next/screenBuilder.js
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import {
   getGlobalVariable, setGlobalVariable, getGlobalPMVariable, setGlobalPMVariable,
 } from "./globalVariables";
+import attachScreenCacheAdapter from "../common/attachScreenCacheAdapter";
 
 const addScriptsToDOM = async function (scripts) {
   for (const script of scripts) {
@@ -26,7 +27,6 @@ export default () => {
       import("@processmaker/screen-builder").then((ScreenBuilder) => {
         const apiClient = getGlobalPMVariable("apiClient");
 
-        const { initializeScreenCache } = ScreenBuilder;
         // Configuration Global object used by ScreenBuilder
         // @link https://processmaker.atlassian.net/browse/FOUR-6833 Cache configuration
         const screenCacheEnabled = document.head.querySelector("meta[name=\"screen-cache-enabled\"]")?.content ?? "false";
@@ -42,8 +42,7 @@ export default () => {
 
         setGlobalVariable("ScreenBuilder", ScreenBuilder);
         setGlobalPMVariable("screen", screen);
-        // Initialize screen-builder cache
-        initializeScreenCache(apiClient, screen);// TODO: Its a bad practice to use the apiClient here
+        attachScreenCacheAdapter(apiClient, screen);
         if (screenBuilderScripts) {
           addScriptsToDOM(screenBuilderScripts).then(() => {
             // The order of the scripts is important, the screenBuilderScripts must be loaded before the ScreenBuilder.default
diff --git a/webpack.mix.js b/webpack.mix.js
index 01253ace95..3291eac28a 100644
--- a/webpack.mix.js
+++ b/webpack.mix.js
@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ mix.webpackConfig({
     alias: {
       "vue-monaco": path.resolve(__dirname, "resources/js/vue-monaco-amd.js"),
       styles: path.resolve(__dirname, "resources/sass"),
+      // axios-extensions still imports axios 0.x deep paths; axios 1 only exposes them via "unsafe" (or alias here).
+      "axios/lib/helpers/buildURL": path.resolve(
+        __dirname,
+        "node_modules/axios/lib/helpers/buildURL.js",
+      ),
     },
   },
 });