softaculous Page Builder Plugin up to 1.9.8 on WordPress Pagelayer pagelayer_builder_posts_shortcode access control

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in softaculous Page Builder Plugin up to 1.9.8 on WordPress. Affected is the function pagelayer_builder_posts_shortcode of the component Pagelayer. Executing a manipulation can lead to access control. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2024-13430. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in softaculous Page Builder Plugin up to 1.9.8 on WordPress. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects the function pagelayer_builder_posts_shortcode of the component Pagelayer. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was presented by Nirmal. The advisory is available at wordfence.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-13430 since 01/15/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/12/2025). This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• softaculous

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• Page Builder Plugin

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• 1.9.0
• 1.9.1
• 1.9.2
• 1.9.3
• 1.9.4
• 1.9.5
• 1.9.6
• 1.9.7
• 1.9.8

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