CVE-2025-3715: Bold Page Builder <= 5.3.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'data-text' Parameter

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 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: 2025-05-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Bold Page Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the data-text parameter in all versions up to, and including, 5.3.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

boldthemes Bold Page Builder: through 5.3.5

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bold-page-builder/tags/5.3.5/content_elements_misc/js/content_elements.js
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3292512/
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a2452dd7-2bb9-4a0c-81db-6699a9b049ae?source=cve

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