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Essential Blocks – Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks, Patterns & Templates, CVE-2025-4682

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-4682

Published on
May 27, 2025
Research Description
The Essential Blocks – Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks, Patterns & Templates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via HTML attributes in Slider and Post Carousel widgets in all versions up to, and including, 5.4.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected versions
Min -, max 5.4.1.
Status
vulnerable