CVE Explorer
CVE-2026-2509
The Page Builder: Pagelayer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Button widget's Custom Attributes field in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.8. This is due to an incomplete event handler blocklist in the 'pagelayer_xss_content' XSS filtering function, which blocks common, but not all, event handlers. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whe
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
0
Affected products and versions
1 source assertion{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"Page Builder: Pagelayer – Drag and Drop website builder","vendor":"softaculous","versions":[{"lessThanOrEqual":"2.0.8","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"}]}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5affectedurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:777051709fa898938d88fceddefe2aed2a46b79ce13a4ad2be6ada20ee7fc459 · sha256:b72419e4a777391d… · /containers/cna/affected/0
Provider-owned CVSS observations
1 source assertion{"metric":{"baseScore":6.4,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5cvssurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:777051709fa898938d88fceddefe2aed2a46b79ce13a4ad2be6ada20ee7fc459 · sha256:b72419e4a777391d… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1
CWE assertions
1 source assertion{"cweId":"CWE-79","description":"CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5cweurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:777051709fa898938d88fceddefe2aed2a46b79ce13a4ad2be6ada20ee7fc459 · sha256:b72419e4a777391d… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0
Source references
4 source assertions{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pagelayer/trunk/main/functions.php#L1293"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:777051709fa898938d88fceddefe2aed2a46b79ce13a4ad2be6ada20ee7fc459 · sha256:b72419e4a777391d… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pagelayer/trunk/main/shortcode_functions.php#L689"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:777051709fa898938d88fceddefe2aed2a46b79ce13a4ad2be6ada20ee7fc459 · sha256:b72419e4a777391d… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3479046/"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:777051709fa898938d88fceddefe2aed2a46b79ce13a4ad2be6ada20ee7fc459 · sha256:b72419e4a777391d… · /containers/cna/references/3
{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/915c119d-2bae-4ea6-babb-7e8e99054cd0?source=cve"}
- cve_program_cvelist_v5referenceurn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:777051709fa898938d88fceddefe2aed2a46b79ce13a4ad2be6ada20ee7fc459 · sha256:b72419e4a777391d… · /containers/cna/references/0
Attribution and limitations
- CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →
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