vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: pagelayer: CVE-2024-13430: Improper Access Control

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Mar 11, 2025
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Page Builder: Pagelayer – Drag and Drop website builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.8 via the 'pagelayer_builder_posts_shortcode' function due to insufficient restrictions on which posts can be included. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to extract data from private posts that they should not have access to.

Solution

pagelayer-plugin-cve-2024-13430
Title
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