WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Gutenberg Essential Blocks < 6.1.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Block Attributes

Description

The Essential Blocks – Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks, Patterns & Templates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the className, classHook, and blockId attributes in the Add to Cart block (essential-blocks/add-to-cart) in all versions up to, and including, 6.0.4. This is due to insufficient output escaping in the render_callback() function where these attributes are placed into class and data-id HTML attributes using raw sprintf() and implode() without esc_attr() escaping. While the outer wrapper div uses get_block_wrapper_attributes() which properly escapes, the inner divs do not. 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 6.1.0

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Jack Pas (Dark.), darkmode
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-05-01 (about 12 days ago)
Added
2026-05-01 (about 11 days ago)
Last Updated
2026-05-02 (about 11 days ago)

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