Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Essential Blocks – Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks, Patterns & Templates Plugin for WordPress

Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Essential Blocks – Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks, Patterns & Templates Plugin for WordPress

CVE-2023-7071 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

The Essential Blocks – Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks, Patterns & Templates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Table of Contents block in all versions up to, and including, 4.4.6 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.

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