🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2024-2255

MEDIUM 6.4

Essential Blocks – Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks, Patterns & Templates <= 4.5.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

CVSS Score
6.4
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

The Essential Blocks – Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks, Patterns & Templates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's widgets in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes such as listStyle. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

CWE CWE-79
Vendor wpdevteam
Product gutenberg essential blocks – page builder for gutenberg blocks & patterns
Published Mar 20, 2024
Last Updated Apr 8, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

wpdevteam / Gutenberg Essential Blocks – Page Builder for Gutenberg Blocks & Patterns
0 ≤ 4.5.3

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cfcd59ae-085f-47d2-a4d2-2d1239f035d2?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/tags/4.5.2/blocks/TableOfContents.php#L120 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3053199/essential-blocks/trunk/blocks/TableOfContents.php

Credits

wesley