XSS in Wpbakery Page Builder

CVE-2025-7502

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.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.002 (11.8th 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

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-7502?
CVE-2025-7502 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wpbakery Page Builder, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2025-08-06.
How severe is CVE-2025-7502?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.