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CVE-2025-4682
Essential Blocks – Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks, Patterns & Templates <= 5.4.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Slider and Post Carousel Widgets
Medium6.4EPSS 0.37%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The Essential Blocks – Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks, Patterns & Templates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via HTML attributes in Slider and Post Carousel widgets in all versions up to, and including, 5.4.0 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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium6.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.37% · top 69% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.
Weakness
Affected products
References (4)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f88f065d-14ca-4547-9a41-f9177979a9ed?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/tags/5.4.0/src/blocks/slider/src/frontend.js (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/tags/5.4.0/src/blocks/post-carousel/src/frontend.js (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3296386/ (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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