Page Builder: Pagelayer – Drag and Drop website builder <= 1.1.1 - Missing Authorization to Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2020-35947
CVSS High (7.4)
Publicly Published May 28, 2020
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Chloe Chamberland
Description

An issue was discovered in the PageLayer plugin before 1.1.2 for WordPress. Nearly all of the AJAX action endpoints lacked permission checks, allowing these actions to be executed by anyone authenticated on the site. This happened because nonces were used as a means of authorization, but a nonce was present in a publicly viewable page. The greatest impact was the pagelayer_save_content function that allowed pages to be modified and allowed XSS to occur.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug pagelayer (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.1.2
Patched Version
  • 1.1.2
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