Vulnerabilites related to Unknown - Essential Blocks
CVE-2023-6623 (GCVE-0-2023-6623)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-15 15:10
Modified
2025-06-11 16:37
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Summary
The Essential Blocks WordPress plugin before 4.4.3 does not prevent unauthenticated attackers from overwriting local variables when rendering templates over the REST API, which may lead to Local File Inclusion attacks.
References
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/633c28e0-0c9e-4e68-9424-55c32789b41fexploit, vdb-entry, technical-description
https://wpscan.com/blog/file-inclusion-vulnerability-fixed-in-essential-blocks-4-4-3/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown Essential Blocks Version: 0   ≤
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CVE-2024-5595 (GCVE-0-2024-5595)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-08-02 06:00
Modified
2024-08-02 16:12
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
Summary
The Essential Blocks WordPress plugin before 4.7.0 does not validate and escape some of its block options before outputting them back in a page/post where the block is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks
References
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f2b8f092-4fc0-4edc-ba0f-d4312c2e5dec/exploit, vdb-entry, technical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown Essential Blocks Version: 0   ≤
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