WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Gutenberg Essential Blocks < 6.4.6 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'marker' Attribute

Description

The Gutenberg Essential Blocks – Page Builder for Gutenberg Blocks & Patterns plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Google Map block's 'marker' attribute in versions up to, and including, 6.4.5 This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on marker title/content values, which are stored as JSON and then decoded and concatenated directly into raw HTML by the frontend script's InfoWindow content builder. 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.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 6.4.6

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Webbernaut
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-09-30 (about 16 days ago)
Added
2026-09-30 (about 16 days ago)
Last Updated
2026-10-01 (about 15 days ago)

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