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CVE-2025-12782: Beaver Builder – WordPress Page Builder <= 2.9.4 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Builder Status Tampering

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-12-04 · updated 2026-10-18
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Beaver Builder – WordPress Page Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.4. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying a user's authorization in the disable() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor level access and above, to disable the Beaver Builder layout on arbitrary posts and pages, causing content integrity issues and layout disruption on those pages.

Affected products

• beaverbuilder Beaver Builder Page Builder – Drag and Drop Website Builder: before 2.9.4.1 — fixed in 2.9.4.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: beaverbuilder Beaver Builder Page Builder – Drag and Drop Website Builder 2.9.4.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3406987/beaver-builder-lite-version
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/710ed734-ca98-4ab3-82d5-359e683ee062?source=cve

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