CVE-2025-4223
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Page Builder: Pagelayer – Drag and Drop website builder plugin for WordPress contains a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2025-4223) discovered in May 2025. The vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 2.0.0, stemming from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the 'login_url' parameter (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Cross-Site Scripting (CWE-79) issue with a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 4.7 (Medium) severity. The attack vector is network-based (AV:N) with high attack complexity (AC:H), requiring no privileges (PR:N) but user interaction (UI:R). The scope is changed (S:C) with low confidentiality and integrity impact (C:L, I:L) and no availability impact (A:N) (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute when users perform specific actions, such as clicking on a malicious link. However, successful exploitation requires a valid username/password pair, and any injected scripts will only execute in the context of the authenticated user (NVD).

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