CVE-2026-16778 PUBLISHED

Live Composer <= 2.1.21 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'dslc_module_downloads_output' Shortcode Content

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 23.07.2026 Published: 22.09.2026 Updated: 22.09.2026

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.

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CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 6.4

Product Status

Vendor livecomposer
Product Live Composer – Free WordPress Website Builder
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 2.1.21 (incl.)

Credits

  • Wordfence PRISM finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') CWE