Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Mar 20, 2024· Updated Apr 8, 2026
CVE-2024-2255
CVE-2024-2255
Description
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.
Affected products
1- cpe:2.3:a:wpdeveloper:essential_blocks:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*Range: <4.5.3
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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References
3- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3053199/essential-blocks/trunk/blocks/TableOfContents.phpnvdPatch
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cfcd59ae-085f-47d2-a4d2-2d1239f035d2nvdThird Party Advisory
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/tags/4.5.2/blocks/TableOfContents.phpnvdProduct
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