Essential Blocks for Gutenberg <= 4.5.3 — Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2024-31306Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤4.5.3Update to 4.5.4 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium6.4
- CVSS
- 6.4CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:CScope- Changed
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Gutenberg Essential Blocks – Page Builder for Gutenberg Blocks & Patterns essential-blocks
- Affected≤ 4.5.3
- Patched in4.5.4
Update to 4.5.4 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 4.5.3. Version 4.5.4 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Gutenberg Essential Blocks – Page Builder for Gutenberg Blocks & Patterns.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 4.5.4, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Gutenberg Essential Blocks – Page Builder for Gutenberg Blocks & Patterns to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Ngô Thiên An (ancorn_).
The Essential Blocks for Gutenberg plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 4.5.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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| Medium6.4 | Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'marker' Attribute ≤6.4.5Update to 6.4.6 | CVE-2026-96256 | |
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| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Information Exposure ≤6.3.0Update to 6.4.0 | CVE-2026-13153 | |
| Medium6.4 | Page Builder for Gutenberg Blocks & Patterns <= 6.1.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'configurablePrefix' Block Attribute ≤6.1.4Update to 6.2.0 | CVE-2026-10833 | |
| High7.2 | Authenticated (Author+) Server-Side Request Forgery ≤6.1.3Update to 6.1.4 | CVE-2026-10586 |
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 6.4
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- [object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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