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CVE-2020-35944

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-01-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

An issue was discovered in the PageLayer plugin before 1.1.2 for WordPress. The pagelayer_settings_page function is vulnerable to CSRF, which can lead to XSS.

Affected products

• softaculous Page Builder: Pagelayer – Drag and Drop website builder: before 1.1.2 — fixed in 1.1.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: softaculous Page Builder: Pagelayer – Drag and Drop website builder 1.1.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/10240
• https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/05/high-severity-vulnerabilities-in-pagelayer-plugin-affect-over-200000-wordpress-sites/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/10240
• https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/05/high-severity-vulnerabilities-in-pagelayer-plugin-affect-over-200000-wordpress-sites/

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