WPBakery Page Builder for WordPress <= 8.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
The WPBakery Page Builder for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via several shortcodes in all versions up to, and including, 8.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-7502
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-fgp5-cvm8-52xw
References
More wpbakery Page Builder vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-05303 WPBakery <= 7.7 - Authenticated (Author+) Local File Inclusion CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2020-17378 The WPBakery plugin before 6.4.1 for WordPress allows XSS because it calls… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.4
- TI-2023-14919 WordPress WPBakery Page Builder Plugin < 6.13.0 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2025-10227 WPBakery Page Builder <= 8.6.1 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting via vc_custom_heading Shortcode CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.4
- TI-2025-10226 WPBakery Page Builder <= 8.6.1 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Custom JS Module CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.4
- TI-2025-09185 WPBakery Page Builder <= 8.6 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.4
Sources
- CVE-2025-7502 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-7502 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-fgp5-cvm8-52xw · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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