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4 vulnerabilities found for Essential Blocks by Unknown
CVE-2024-5595 (GCVE-0-2024-5595)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2024-08-02 06:00 – Updated: 2024-08-02 16:12
VLAI?
Title
Essential Blocks < 4.7.0 - Contributor+ Stored XSS
Summary
The Essential Blocks WordPress plugin before 4.7.0 does not validate and escape some of its block options before outputting them back in a page/post where the block is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium)
Assigner
References
| URL | Tags | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|||||
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Essential Blocks |
Affected:
0 , < 4.7.0
(semver)
|
Credits
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CVE-2023-6623 (GCVE-0-2023-6623)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2024-01-15 15:10 – Updated: 2025-06-11 16:37
VLAI?
Title
Essential Blocks < 4.4.3 - Unauthenticated Local File Inclusion
Summary
The Essential Blocks WordPress plugin before 4.4.3 does not prevent unauthenticated attackers from overwriting local variables when rendering templates over the REST API, which may lead to Local File Inclusion attacks.
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical)
Assigner
References
| URL | Tags | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
||||||||
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Essential Blocks |
Affected:
0 , < 4.4.3
(semver)
|
Credits
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CVE-2024-5595 (GCVE-0-2024-5595)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-02 06:00 – Updated: 2024-08-02 16:12
VLAI?
Title
Essential Blocks < 4.7.0 - Contributor+ Stored XSS
Summary
The Essential Blocks WordPress plugin before 4.7.0 does not validate and escape some of its block options before outputting them back in a page/post where the block is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium)
Assigner
References
| URL | Tags | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|||||
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Essential Blocks |
Affected:
0 , < 4.7.0
(semver)
|
Credits
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CVE-2023-6623 (GCVE-0-2023-6623)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-15 15:10 – Updated: 2025-06-11 16:37
VLAI?
Title
Essential Blocks < 4.4.3 - Unauthenticated Local File Inclusion
Summary
The Essential Blocks WordPress plugin before 4.4.3 does not prevent unauthenticated attackers from overwriting local variables when rendering templates over the REST API, which may lead to Local File Inclusion attacks.
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical)
Assigner
References
| URL | Tags | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
||||||||
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Essential Blocks |
Affected:
0 , < 4.4.3
(semver)
|
Credits
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