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).

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-8618

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 4.8

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected Products

Vendor: Unknown

Product: Page Builder: Pagelayer

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 5.89% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-07 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8618
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/acddcf33-0a18-499e-b42d-c8b49f2c4de5/

Timeline