The Bold Page Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin 'bt_bb_tabs' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 5.5.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.
Bold Builder <= 5.5.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via bt_bb_tabs Shortcode
Problem type
Affected products
boldthemes
<= 5.5.1 - AFFECTED
References
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/64f30329-ecf2-4e30-bc23-9d447e239e08?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bold-page-builder/tags/5.4.8/content_elements/bt_bb_tabs/bt_bb_tabs.php
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bold-page-builder/tags/5.4.8/content_elements/bt_bb_tabs/bt_bb_tabs.php#L65
GitHub Security Advisories
GHSA-563x-8ppc-xc7c
The Bold Page Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the...
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-563x-8ppc-xc7cThe Bold Page Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin 'bt_bb_tabs' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 5.5.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12803
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bold-page-builder/tags/5.4.8/content_elements/bt_bb_tabs/bt_bb_tabs.php
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bold-page-builder/tags/5.4.8/content_elements/bt_bb_tabs/bt_bb_tabs.php#L65
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/64f30329-ecf2-4e30-bc23-9d447e239e08?source=cve
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-563x-8ppc-xc7c
JSON source
https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2025-12803Click to expand
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