# CVE-2025-2104: Missing authorization in Page Builder: Pagelayer – Drag and Drop website builder

> Authenticated contributors can bypass post moderation and publish posts due to missing authorization checks in the Pagelayer WordPress plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/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:** 13 Mar 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-95hj-r9g9-45hj

## What is CVE-2025-2104?

CVE-2025-2104 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in softaculous Page Builder: Pagelayer – Drag and Drop website builder, published on 13 Mar 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Page Builder: Pagelayer – Drag and Drop website builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized post publication due to insufficient validation on the pagelayer_save_content() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to bypass post moderation and publish posts to the site.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-2104?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Pagelayer Pagelayer.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-2104?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-2104 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-2104 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-2104 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in softaculous Page Builder: Pagelayer – Drag and Drop website builder

- [CVE-2020-35944](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-35944/): Cross-site request forgery in n/a (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2020-35947](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-35947/): Missing authorization in n/a (high 7.4)
- [CVE-2024-30465](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-30465/): WordPress PageLayer plugin <= 1.8.1 - Broken Access Control vulnerability (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2024-2504](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-2504/): Cross-site scripting in Page Builder: Pagelayer – Drag and Drop website builder (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2024-2127](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-2127/): Cross-site scripting in Page Builder: Pagelayer – Drag and Drop website builder (medium 6.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-2104 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-2104 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in softaculous Page Builder: Pagelayer – Drag and Drop website builder, published on 13 Mar 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-2025-2104 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: softaculous Page Builder: Pagelayer – 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-2025-2104/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-2104/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-2104
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2104
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-2104

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-2104/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.