Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Jun 13, 2024· Updated Apr 8, 2026
CVE-2024-5265
CVE-2024-5265
Description
The WPBakery Visual Composer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the link attribute within the vc_single_image shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 7.6 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.
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Affected products
3- cpe:2.3:a:wpbakery_page_builder_clipboard_project:wpbakery_page_builder_clipboard:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*Range: <=7.6
- Range: <=7.6
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
2- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/35a5114e-5c5f-4003-8bb3-77243ffbac1anvdThird Party Advisory
- kb.wpbakery.com/docs/preface/release-notes/nvdRelease Notes
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