CVE-2023-7115 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Page Builder: Pagelayer WordPress plugin before 1.8.1 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)

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00189.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Pagelayer	Pagelayer

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:pagelayer:pagelayer:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6ddd1a9e-3f96-4020-9b2b-f818a4d5ba58/

History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00144}`	epss `{'score': 0.00139}`

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Pagelayer Pagelayer pagelayer
Weaknesses		CWE-79
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:pagelayer:pagelayer::::::wordpress::*
Vendors & Products		Pagelayer Pagelayer pagelayer
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-02-27T08:30:28.323Z

Updated: 2025-03-27T14:32:09.749Z

Reserved: 2023-12-27T03:30:44.759Z

Link: CVE-2023-7115

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T08:50:08.049Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-02-27T09:15:37.197

Modified: 2025-03-27T15:15:48.363

Link: CVE-2023-7115

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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