# CVE-2025-12934: Missing authorization in Beaver Builder Page Builder – Drag and Drop Website Builder

> Authenticated subscribers can update arbitrary posts, potentially exposing private content or deleting data due to missing capability checks.

- **Severity:** High 8.1 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 23 Dec 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-jc87-rmw3-fhgf

## What is CVE-2025-12934?

CVE-2025-12934 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in beaverbuilder Beaver Builder Page Builder – Drag and Drop Website Builder, published on 23 Dec 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Beaver Builder – WordPress Page Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access and modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'duplicate_wpml_layout' function in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.4.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update arbitrary posts with the content of other existing posts, potentially exposing private and password-protected content and deleting any content that is not saved in revisions or backups. Posts must have been created with Beaver Builder to be copied or updated.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-12934?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-12934?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-12934 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-12934 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-12934 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-12934 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-12934 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in beaverbuilder Beaver Builder Page Builder – Drag and Drop Website Builder, published on 23 Dec 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-12934 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: beaverbuilder Beaver Builder Page Builder – Drag and Drop Website Builder. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-12934/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-12934/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-12934
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12934
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-12934

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-12934/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.