CVE-2026-16778
The 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…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.38%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
The 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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.4 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.38% probability · 32th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Source
- security@wordfence.com
EPSS moved from 0.2% on 22 September 2026 to 0.4% on 26 October 2026.
References
- 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#L5219
- 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#L5502
- 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#L5685
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3705127%40live-composer-page-builder&new=3705127%40live-composer-page-builder
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1d072660-515c-4fd9-903b-815447786e03?source=cve
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.