fkie_cve-2023-6623
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2024-01-15 16:15
Modified
2025-06-11 17:15
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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
contact@wpscan.comhttps://wpscan.com/blog/file-inclusion-vulnerability-fixed-in-essential-blocks-4-4-3/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
contact@wpscan.comhttps://wpscan.com/vulnerability/633c28e0-0c9e-4e68-9424-55c32789b41fExploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://wpscan.com/blog/file-inclusion-vulnerability-fixed-in-essential-blocks-4-4-3/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/633c28e0-0c9e-4e68-9424-55c32789b41fExploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wpdeveloper essential_blocks *


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  "lastModified": "2025-06-11T17:15:39.603",
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