Page Builder by SiteOrigin <= 2.34.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via panels_data Parameter
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.4epss 0.4%
exploitation probability
0.4%top 64% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
The Page Builder by SiteOrigin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via panels_data Parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.34.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This is possible because the nonce and edit_post capability checks enforced during save are both satisfied by Contributor-level users for their own posts, and the panels_data value is stored as post meta — outside the scope of WordPress's unfiltered_html carve-out — meaning no wp_kses fallback prevents the unsanitized WP_Widget_Custom_HTML content from being persisted and later rendered verbatim on the frontend.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Affected products
gpriday · Page Builder by SiteOriginReferences
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/siteorigin-panels/tags/2.34.1/inc/admin.php#L1085https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/siteorigin-panels/tags/2.34.1/inc/admin.php#L236https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/siteorigin-panels/tags/2.34.1/inc/admin.php#L254https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/siteorigin-panels/tags/2.34.1/inc/renderer.php#L950https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/siteorigin-panels/tags/2.34.3/inc/admin.php#L1085https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/siteorigin-panels/tags/2.34.3/inc/admin.php#L236https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/siteorigin-panels/tags/2.34.3/inc/admin.php#L254https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/siteorigin-panels/tags/2.34.3/inc/renderer.php#L950https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3585987%40siteorigin-panels&new=3585987%40siteorigin-panels&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7830b3dc-7d20-4516-b4d6-57636ca773e9?source=cve