What is CVE-2024-13430?

CVE-2024-13430 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Pagelayer, classified under Improper Access Control. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2025-03-12.

How severe is CVE-2024-13430?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Pagelayer

CVE-2024-13430

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.

Published 2025-03-12 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (23.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 24th percentile — 23.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Pagelayer
Softaculous Page Builder: Pagelayer – Drag And Drop Website Builder — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-284 — Improper Access Control

References

www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1de8da4c-dee7-4d59-a475-a9690… (Third Party Advisory)
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3252081/pagelayer (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-13430?: CVE-2024-13430 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Pagelayer, classified under Improper Access Control. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2025-03-12.
How severe is CVE-2024-13430?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.