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CVE-2025-2104: Page Builder: Pagelayer – Drag and Drop website builder <= 1.9.9 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Contributor+) Post Publication

• 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: 2025-03-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

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.

Affected products

• softaculous Page Builder: Pagelayer – Drag and Drop website builder: before 2.0.0 — fixed in 2.0.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: softaculous Page Builder: Pagelayer – Drag and Drop website builder 2.0.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3253356%40pagelayer&new=3253356%40pagelayer&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2e3897fb-0f40-4111-8a7d-60415e1f9f96?source=cve

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