Vulnerability in Visual Composer Website Builder — CVE-2026-106596

What to do now

Update Visual Composer Website Builder to 45.16.4 or later.

Affected versions

• Everything up to and including 45.16.3

The Visual Composer Website Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access in all versions up to, and including, 45.16.3. This is due to a missing capability check on a function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to perform an unauthorized action.

This description is reproduced verbatim from the public vulnerability record.

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2ac09de3-4393-4f56-9240-bf2fdaa6f762?source=api-prod

Part of this record comes from Wordfence Intelligence. Original: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2ac09de3-4393-4f56-9240-bf2fdaa6f762
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