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Description

The Page Builder: Pagelayer WordPress plugin before 1.9.0 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

PUBLISHED Reserved 2024-09-09 | Published 2025-05-15 | Updated 2025-05-20 | Assigner WPScan

Problem types

CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Product status

Default status
unaffected

Any version before 1.9.0
affected

Credits

Bob Matyas finder

WPScan coordinator

References

wpscan.com/...rability/acddcf33-0a18-499e-b42d-c8b49f2c4de5/ exploit

wpscan.com/...rability/acddcf33-0a18-499e-b42d-c8b49f2c4de5/ exploit vdb-entry technical-description

cve.org (CVE-2024-8618)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2024-8618)

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