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aBlocks – Gutenberg Blocks, User Dashboard Builder, Popup Builder, Form Builder & Animation Builder < 2.9.1 — Authenticated (Contributor+) Privilege Escalation

CVE-2026-57386Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <2.9.1Update to 2.9.1 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
High8.8
CVSS
8.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

aBlocks – Gutenberg Blocks, User Dashboard Builder, Popup Builder, Form Builder & Animation Builder ablocks

  1. Affected< 2.9.1
  2. Patched in2.9.1

Update to 2.9.1 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 2.9.1. Version 2.9.1 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under aBlocks – Gutenberg Blocks, User Dashboard Builder, Popup Builder, Form Builder & Animation Builder.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 2.9.1, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch aBlocks – Gutenberg Blocks, User Dashboard Builder, Popup Builder, Form Builder & Animation Builder to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Evan NR.

The aBlocks – Gutenberg Blocks, User Dashboard Builder, Popup Builder, Form Builder & Animation Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to 2.9.1 (exclusive). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to elevate their privileges to that of an administrator.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in aBlocks – Gutenberg Blocks, User Dashboard Builder, Popup Builder, Form Builder & Animation Builder

All 8
More vulnerabilities in aBlocks – Gutenberg Blocks, User Dashboard Builder, Popup Builder, Form Builder & Animation Builder
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'headingTag' Block Attribute
≤2.18.0Update to 2.20.0
CVE-2026-118800
Medium4.3Authenticated (Contributor+) Sensitive Information Exposure in 'ablocks_template' Shortcode
≤2.18.0Update to 2.20.0
CVE-2026-118801
High8.8Authenticated (Contributor+) Privilege Escalation to 'roleSlug' Block Attribute
≤2.17.0Update to 2.18.0
CVE-2026-110018
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.17.0Update to 2.18.0
CVE-2026-40804
Medium5.4Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Settings Modification
≤2.4.0Update to 2.5.0
CVE-2025-12449

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 8.8

  2. 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.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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