What is CVE-2024-5708?

CVE-2024-5708 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wpbakery Page Builder, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-08-06.

How severe is CVE-2024-5708?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-5708 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Wpbakery Page Builder

CVE-2024-5708

The WPBakery Visual Composer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘link’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 7.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, and with post permissions granted by an Administrator, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (18.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Wpbakery Page Builder — versions 0
Wpbakery Wpbakery_page_builder

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

security@wordfence.com (Third Party Advisory)
security@wordfence.com (Product)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-5708?: CVE-2024-5708 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wpbakery Page Builder, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-08-06.
How severe is CVE-2024-5708?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-5708 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.