PageLayer <= 1.8.7 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

4.4
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2024-43972
CVSS 4.4 (Medium)
Publicly Published August 28, 2024
Last Updated October 15, 2024
Researchers Sharanabasappa
Jeewan Kumar Bhatta

Description

The PageLayer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 1.8.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only impacts multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled. CVE-2024-8426 may be a duplicate of this issue.

Wordfence blocked 20,534,960 attacks targeting this vulnerability in the past 24 hours.

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Vulnerability Details for Page Builder: Pagelayer – Drag and Drop website builder

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug pagelayer (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.8.8, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.8.7
Patched Version
  • 1.8.8

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