Page Builder: Pagelayer – Drag and Drop website builder <= 1.9.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Post Publication

4.3
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-2104
CVSS 4.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published March 12, 2025
Last Updated March 13, 2025
Researcher Brian Sans-Souci (liardom)

Description

The Page Builder: Pagelayer – Drag and Drop website builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized post publication due to insufficient validation on the pagelayer_save_content() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to bypass post moderation and publish posts to the site.

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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 2.0.0, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.9.8
Patched Version
  • 2.0.0

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