Page Builder: Pagelayer โ€“ Drag and Drop website builder <= 1.7.6 - Missing Authorization to Stored Cross-Site Scripting

7.2
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-4687
CVSS 7.2 (High)
Publicly Published September 25, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Marc-Alexandre Montpas

Description

The Page Builder: Pagelayer โ€“ Drag and Drop website builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the pagelayer_save_post() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.6. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious JavaScript in the header/footer of scheduled posts which may execute whenever a user accesses the injected page/post.

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Vulnerability Details for Page Builder: Pagelayer โ€“ Drag and Drop website builder

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug pagelayer (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.7.7, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.7.6
Patched Version
  • 1.7.7

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