Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Pagelayer Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2026-2509

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Page Builder: Pagelayer – Drag And Drop Website Builder
Vendor
CVE Published:
8 April 2026

What is CVE-2026-2509?

The Pagelayer plugin for WordPress presents a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability, allowing authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access and above to exploit the Custom Attributes field in the Button widget. This vulnerability arises from an incomplete blocklist within the 'pagelayer_xss_content' filtering function, permitting the injection of arbitrary web scripts. Such injected scripts execute when users access affected pages, potentially compromising site security and user data.

Affected Version(s)

Page Builder: Pagelayer – Drag and Drop website builder 0 <= 2.0.8

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pagelayer/trun...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pagelayer/trun...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Athiwat Tiprasaharn
.