CVE-2025-2104 (GCVE-0-2025-2104)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-13 04:21 – Updated: 2025-03-17 21:29
VLAI?
Title
Page Builder: Pagelayer – Drag and Drop website builder <= 1.9.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Post Publication
Summary
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.
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
softaculous Page Builder: Pagelayer – Drag and Drop website builder Affected: * , ≤ 1.9.8 (semver)
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Credits
Brian Sans-Souci
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