CVE-2024-1840: CWE-80 Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) in wpbakery WPBakery Visual Composer
The wpbakery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Post Author tag attribute in all versions up to, and including, 7.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor access or higher, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
CVE-2024-1840: CWE-80 Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) in wpbakery WPBakery Visual Composer
Description
The wpbakery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Post Author tag attribute in all versions up to, and including, 7.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor access or higher, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.1
- Assigner Short Name
- Wordfence
- Date Reserved
- 2024-02-23T14:35:25.601Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 699f6d40b7ef31ef0b56f6a7
Added to database: 2/25/2026, 9:44:32 PM
Last updated: 2/26/2026, 9:40:18 AM
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