CVE-2024-4891

May 18, 2024, 5:15 a.m.

6.4
Medium

Description

The Essential Blocks – Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks, Patterns & Templates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘tagName’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 4.5.12 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Product(s) Impacted

Product Versions
Essential Blocks - Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks, Patterns & Templates plugin for WordPress
  • ['up to 4.5.12']

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/trunk/blocks/AdvancedHeading.php#L115
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3087677/
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e1bcebb3-920b-40cc-aa5c-24a1f729b28d?source=cve

Tags

security@wordfence.com
2024-05-18
CVE-2024-4891

CVSS Score

6.4 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: LOW
  • Scope: CHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: LOW
  • Integrity Impact: LOW
  • Availability Impact: NONE

    • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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Timeline

Published: May 18, 2024, 5:15 a.m.
Last Modified: May 18, 2024, 5:15 a.m.

Status : Received

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

security@wordfence.com

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