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    "description": "Beaver Builder Lite or paid: strengths, limitations, plan pricing, recommended settings (access, fonts, revisions) and vulnerabilities patched in 2026.",
    "lead": "Beaver Builder is a drag-and-drop page builder aimed mainly at agencies, with a free Lite version and annual plans. Our take to help you choose between Lite and paid, the access, font and revision settings to pick, and the 2026 vulnerabilities worth knowing.",
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    "body": "## The essentials\n\n- Best for agencies and freelancers building client sites, with role-based access to the builder.\n- Main caveat: Lite has no form, tabs or templates, and layouts are lost without the plugin.\n- Free as Lite; paid plans run from $89 a year for one site to $546 a year for unlimited sites.\n\n## What Beaver Builder does on your site\n\nBeaver Builder is a drag-and-drop page builder that works on the front end of your site: you open a page, then place rows, columns and modules while you watch the result. The free version, Beaver Builder Lite, ships with about fifteen modules (Box for flexbox and CSS grid layouts, Photo, Button, Heading, Menu, Number Counter, Text Editor, HTML, Video, Sidebar and more), photo, color or video backgrounds, and mobile-friendly layouts. WordPress widgets and shortcodes fit into a layout too.\n\nThe layout is stored in post metadata, and the plugin also writes a stripped-down version (text, images) into the regular post content. For each layout it generates a CSS file and a JavaScript file in `wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/`, and it only loads the assets a page actually needs. It also adds a class containing its version number to the body of every page. By default it is only enabled on pages; other content types are picked in the settings.\n\nThe vendor, FastLine Media LLC, sells a paid version under the Beaver Builder brand as a separate plugin: when activated, it deactivates Lite and picks up your layouts. It adds modules (contact form, tabs, slider, pricing table, map, blog posts, subscribe form), ready-made templates, saving and exporting rows and modules, a global color palette, plus the Beaver Builder Theme and Beaver Themer for building headers, footers and archives.\n\n![Diagram: Beaver Builder works on visitors and bots, wordpress, database and files. Public traces: version number in a class (hidden with Pro); folder name (hidden with Pro); tag IDs (hidden with Pro); generated-file folders (hidden with Pro); CSS classes (still visible).](https://www.wp-masquerade.com/media/wpm-sheets/beaver-builder/diagram-en.svg?v=f6118cb1)\n\n## Which sites Beaver Builder is a good fit for\n\nBeaver Builder is aimed mainly at professionals who deliver websites:\n\n- **Agencies and freelancers**: the Professional plan covers 50 sites and multisite, the Unlimited plan adds white labeling, and staging sites never count toward the limit.\n- **Brochure sites handed over to a client**: the “Unrestricted Editing” setting reserves the styling tools for certain roles, while everyone else gets a simplified interface for editing content.\n- **Sites keeping their current theme**: the plugin works with most themes and only takes over the content area of the pages you choose.\n\nIt is not the right choice if you want a feature-rich free version: without a license, you get no contact form, tabs, templates or saved sections. For a mostly text-based blog, the block editor is enough. Our [WordPress page builder comparison](https://www.wp-masquerade.com/best-wordpress-page-builders-compared/) puts Beaver Builder side by side with [Elementor](https://www.wp-masquerade.com/features/camouflaged-plugins/elementor/), Divi and Bricks.\n\n## Beaver Builder strengths and limitations\n\n### Strengths\n\n- **Assets loaded on demand.** Each layout gets its own CSS and JavaScript files instead of loading every module everywhere.\n- **Content that does not vanish.** The stripped-down version written into the content keeps your text and images readable if the plugin is deactivated.\n- **Role-based access.** You decide who can open the builder and who gets every option, even in the free version.\n- **The core suite from the one-site plan.** The theme, Beaver Themer, premium modules and unlimited staging come with every paid plan.\n\n### Limitations\n\n- **A limited free version.** No form, tabs, slider or templates, and no saving of rows.\n- **Layouts tied to the plugin.** Without it, only the raw content remains: columns, backgrounds and styling are lost.\n- **Annual billing only.** There is no monthly option, and an active license is required for updates and support.\n- **Limited free support.** The vendor says it provides only very limited support on the WordPress.org forums.\n\n## The settings we recommend for Beaver Builder\n\nThese settings exist in the current free version, under Settings > Beaver Builder. Tab and option names are given as they appear in the plugin’s English interface.\n\n| Setting | Recommended value | Why |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **Automatic updates**  Plugins > Beaver Builder | On | Several security fixes shipped in 2026, two of them for flaws that could be exploited without an account. |\n| **Post Types**  Settings > Beaver Builder > Post Types | Only the types you actually build (pages by default) | The visual builder stays out of places where it has no job. |\n| **Builder Access**  Settings > Beaver Builder > User Access | Administrator and Editor (the default) | Only add authors or contributors if they really need to build pages. |\n| **Unrestricted Editing**  Settings > Beaver Builder > User Access | Depends on the site: Administrator only on a client site | Other roles keep the simplified interface and cannot break the layout. |\n| **Google Fonts**  Settings > Beaver Builder > Advanced > Assets | Off if your pages use no Google font | Otherwise fonts are requested from fonts.googleapis.com on every visit. |\n| **Limit WP revisions for layouts**  Settings > Beaver Builder > Advanced | On, limit of 10 (the default) | WordPress does not cap revisions, and every saved layout creates one. |\n| **Debug Mode**  Settings > Beaver Builder > Tools | Off, unless support asks for it | It creates a temporary diagnostic URL that you should share only with support. |\n\n- After a migration or an update, click “Clear Cache” in the Tools tab, then reload a built page in a private window.\n- In Users, check who has the Contributor or Author role: that is the account level most published vulnerabilities require.\n- In Plugins, confirm that only one version of Beaver Builder is active: the plugin shows a warning if Lite and the paid version run side by side.\n\n## Beaver Builder security: unauthenticated flaws in 2026\n\nPatchstack lists more than thirty patched vulnerabilities in Beaver Builder since 2022. Most are [stored XSS flaws](https://www.wp-masquerade.com/glossary/xss/) that need a Contributor account, but 2026 brought more serious cases:\n\n- **CVE-2026-40744, fixed in 2.10.1.5**: a blind [SQL injection](https://www.wp-masquerade.com/glossary/sql-injection/) by a logged-in user, affecting versions up to 2.10.1.2 (CVSS 8.5).\n- **CVE-2026-18021, fixed in 2.10.3.2**: arbitrary shortcode execution without an account, in versions up to 2.10.3.1 (CVSS 6.5).\n- **CVE-2026-92084, fixed in 2.11.0.6**: another unauthenticated shortcode execution, through the Sidebar module output, in versions up to 2.11.0.5 (CVSS 9.1).\n- **CVE-2026-95865, fixed in 2.11.0.6**: a blind SQL injection by a Contributor account, in the same versions (CVSS 6.5).\n\nSo turn on automatic updates for Beaver Builder (see our guide to automatic plugin updates), and keep the paid version’s license renewed, since it stops receiving updates without one. WP Masquerade Pro removes the version number from the body class and renames the plugin’s folders, its generated-file folder and the `fl-builder` IDs of its stylesheets and scripts, but the `fl-builder`, `fl-row` and `fl-node-*` classes stay visible. That makes it harder for bots targeting these flaws to spot the plugin, without replacing the update.\n\n## Beaver Builder FAQ\n\n**How much does Beaver Builder cost?**\n\nLite is free. The vendor’s pricing page lists four annual plans in US dollars: Starter at $89 for one site, Plus at $179 for three sites (with Beaver Builder AI), Professional at $299 for 50 sites and Unlimited at $546 with no site limit, all with a 30-day money-back guarantee.\n\n**What happens to my pages if I deactivate Beaver Builder?**\n\nThe simplified content saved in each page is still displayed: text, headings and images. The column structure, backgrounds and styling disappear, so you will need to rebuild the layout with another tool.\n\n**Do I need to uninstall Lite before switching to the paid version?**\n\nNo. The paid version installs as a separate plugin and deactivates Lite when you activate it; your layouts carry over.\n\n**Do staging sites count toward the site limit?**\n\nNo. According to the pricing page, only live sites count; staging and development sites are unlimited on every plan.\n\n## Key facts\n\n- Category: Builders and themes\n- Vendor: FastLine Media LLC (Beaver Builder)\n- Price: Free (Lite); paid plans from $89 per year for one site to $546 per year with no site limit\n- Active installations (wordpress.org): 100 000+\n- Version: 2.11.1.2\n- Official page: https://wordpress.org/plugins/beaver-builder-lite-version/\n\n## What WP Masquerade hides\n\n- Handled by WP Masquerade Pro only\n- With Pro: version number in a class, folder name, tag IDs, generated-file folders\n- Still visible: CSS classes",
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