Live Composer – Free WordPress Website Builder · cross-site scripting
cve-program · CVE-2026-16778
PublishedThe Live Composer – Free WordPress Website Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'dslc_module_downloads_output' Shortcode Content in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.21 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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. The save-time wp_kses_post check is bypassed because the payload is stored as a serialized string containing no HTML tags for kses to tokenize, and the shortcode callback re-emits attacker-controlled values — including view_all_link (href attribute), main_heading_title (h2 body), button_text (anchor body), and button_inline_svg (anchor body) — without any escaping at render time.
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CVE-2026-16778 · CVE overview and exploitation status
cve-program · CVE-2026-16778
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1d072660-515c-4fd9-903b-815447786e03?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/live-composer-page-builder/tags/2.1.18/modules/downloads/module.php#L5508
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/live-composer-page-builder/tags/2.1.18/modules/downloads/module.php#L5225
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/live-composer-page-builder/tags/2.1.18/modules/downloads/module.php#L5219
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/live-composer-page-builder/tags/2.1.18/modules/downloads/module.php#L5502
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/live-composer-page-builder/tags/2.1.18/modules/downloads/module.php#L4978
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/live-composer-page-builder/tags/2.1.18/modules/downloads/module.php#L5685
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3705127%40live-composer-page-builder&new=3705127%40live-composer-page-builder
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