CVE-2024-5595 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Essential Blocks WordPress plugin before 4.7.0 does not validate and escape some of its block options before outputting them back in a page/post where the block is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00297.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

Essential Blocks

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 4.7.0

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wpdeveloper:essential_blocks:*:*:*:*:free:wordpress:*:*

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Project Subscriptions

Vendors	Products
Wpdeveloper Subscribe	Essential Blocks Subscribe

Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f2b8f092-4fc0-4edc-ba0f-d4312c2e5dec/

History

Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-79
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:wpdeveloper:essential_blocks:::::free:wordpress::

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-08-02T06:00:06.949Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T16:12:09.234Z

Reserved: 2024-06-03T08:54:49.037Z

Link: CVE-2024-5595

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T16:11:51.471Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-08-02T06:15:54.263

Modified: 2025-04-11T15:14:03.770

Link: CVE-2024-5595

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79

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