CVE-2024-8618: Pagelayer

Medium severity, CVSS 4.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Page Builder: Pagelayer WordPress plugin before 1.9.0 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

Affected products

• Pagelayer Pagelayer: before 1.9.0 (fixed in 1.9.0)

Published 2025-05-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.