CVE-2025-4965
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The WPBakery Page Builder WordPress plugin is affected by a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2025-4965) in versions up to and including 8.4.1. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on June 19, 2025, affecting the plugin's Grid Builder feature (NVD CVE).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes within the Grid Builder feature. It has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 score of 6.4 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (NVD CVE).

Impact

When exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with author-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the compromised page, potentially leading to data theft or session hijacking (NVD CVE).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability was addressed in version 8.5 of WPBakery Page Builder, released on June 17, 2025. Users are advised to update to this version or later to protect against this security issue (WPBakery Release).

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