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Visual Composer Website Builder

Plugin description

Visual Composer Website Builder provides a drag-and-drop visual editor for creating WordPress page layouts.

Visual Composer Website Builder (visualcomposer) is a WordPress plugin with 6 published CVE records in this archive. The latest tracked vulnerability was published Sep 11, 2026; the highest published CVSS base score is 6.5.

Plugin slug: visualcomposer

Latest vulnerability

CVE-2026-62138: Visual Composer permits contributor cross-site scripting

Visual Composer Website Builder through 45.16.1 permits cross-site scripting by an authenticated Contributor. The CNA vector requires another user to interact with the affected content and rates confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts as low. The authoritative export does not identify the endpoint, action, parameter, storage path, rendering function, or output context.

PublishedSep 11, 2026

Known safe version45.16.2

Published vulnerabilities for visualcomposer
		Safe version
Sep 11, 2026	CVE-2026-62138 Visual Composer permits contributor cross-site scripting Visual Composer Website Builder through 45.16.1 permits cross-site scripting by an authenticated Contributor. The CNA vector requires another user to interact with the affected content and rates confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts as low. The authoritative export does not identify the endpoint, action, parameter, storage path, rendering function, or output context.	45.16.2	CVE6.5 NVDPending
Jul 27, 2026	CVE-2026-65568 Visual Composer contributors can reach a privileged operation Visual Composer Website Builder through 45.15.0 lets a Contributor reach a plugin operation without the required capability or ownership check.	45.16.0	CVE5.0 NVDPending
Aug 14, 2025	CVE-2025-55709 Visual Composer Website Builder: Cross-site scripting Visual Composer Website Builder is affected by cross-site scripting. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.	See mitigation notes	CVE6.5 NVDPending
May 19, 2025	CVE-2025-48276 Visual Composer Website Builder: Cross-site scripting Visual Composer Website Builder is affected by cross-site scripting. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.	See mitigation notes	CVE6.5 NVDPending
Jun 04, 2024	CVE-2024-35653 Visual Composer Website Builder: Cross-site scripting Visual Composer Website Builder is affected by cross-site scripting. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.	See mitigation notes	CVE6.5 NVD5.4
Mar 19, 2024	CVE-2024-27997 Visual Composer Website Builder: Cross-site scripting Visual Composer Website Builder is affected by cross-site scripting. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.	See mitigation notes	CVE5.9 NVDPending

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