WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Layouts for WPBakery < 1.1.4 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Template Cache Manipulation via 'handle_sync' AJAX Action

Description

The Layouts for WPBakery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized actions due to a missing capability check on the `Layouts_WPB_Remote::template_sync()` callback registered via `wp_ajax_nopriv_handle_sync` in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to force the WordPress server to issue outbound HTTP requests to the plugin vendor's external API (`https://www.layoutsforwpbakery.com/wp-json/layoutsforwpbakery/v1/{templates,categories}`) and to write the JSON-decoded responses verbatim into the site's `wp_options` table via `set_transient()` — at any rate the attacker chooses, with no nonce verification, capability check, or rate limiting.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 1.1.4

References

Classification

Type
NO AUTHORISATION
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
murd0ck, Patricio Briones (CyberDoomer)
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-08-04 (about 2 months ago)
Added
2026-08-04 (about 2 months ago)
Last Updated
2026-08-05 (about 2 months ago)

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