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: 2025-05-15
Score: 4.8 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-15226 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).
History

Tue, 27 May 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Pagelayer
Pagelayer pagelayer
Weaknesses CWE-79
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:pagelayer:pagelayer:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Vendors & Products Pagelayer
Pagelayer pagelayer

Tue, 20 May 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Thu, 15 May 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
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).
Title Page Builder: Pagelayer < 1.9.0- Admin+ Stored XSS
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Pagelayer Pagelayer
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2025-05-20T18:45:53.100Z

Reserved: 2024-09-09T18:51:57.068Z

Link: CVE-2024-8618

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-05-20T18:45:11.620Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-05-15T20:15:59.070

Modified: 2025-05-27T19:51:55.623

Link: CVE-2024-8618

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses