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vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: addons-for-visual-composer: CVE-2024-2079: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Mar 13, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The WPBakery Page Builder Addons by Livemesh plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'per_line_mobile' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Solution

addons-for-visual-composer-plugin-cve-2024-2079
Title
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