Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published May 14, 2024· Updated Apr 8, 2026

CVE-2024-4158

Description

The Blocksy theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘tagName’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 2.0.42 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 products

Creativethemes/Blocksy
cpe:2.3:a:creativethemes:blocksy:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Range: <2.0.43

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/226440/blocksynvdPatch
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/22d1ccf3-ac1a-4dfc-81c3-b8eb88795bc1nvdThird Party Advisory

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