Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Essential Blocks for WordPress
CVE-2024-13803
Key Information:
- Vendor
WordPress
- Vendor
- CVE Published:
- 26 February 2025
What is CVE-2024-13803?
The Essential Blocks plugin, used for creating pages in WordPress, suffers from a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability. This flaw resides in the 'data-marker' parameter and affects all versions up to 5.2.3. It arises from inadequate input sanitization and output escaping, allowing authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access and above to inject malicious scripts. These scripts can execute whenever an unsuspecting user accesses the compromised page, potentially compromising user data and site integrity.

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Affected Version(s)
Essential Blocks β Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks, Patterns & Templates * <= 5.2.3
References
CVSS V3.1
Timeline
Vulnerability published
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