CVE-2024-4891: The Essential Blocks – Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks, Patterns & Templates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘tagName’…

PriorityP424medium5.4CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRLUIRSCCLILAN

EPSS

0.47%

37.0th percentile

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.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
wpdeveloper	essential_blocks	< 4.5.13	4.5.13
wpdevteam	gutenberg_essential_blocks_page_builder_for_gutenberg_blocks_patterns	<= 4.5.12	—

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