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Essential Blocks for Gutenberg <= 5.2.3 is vulnerable to Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability

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2025-02-24

The Essential Blocks – Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks, Patterns & Templates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘data-marker’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 5.2.3 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.

CVSS

Score:6.5

Severity:Medium

Version: 5.2.3

There is a patch available in v5.3.0 and we strongly recommend you update to this version as soon as possible.