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CVE-2025-11369: Essential Blocks <= 5.7.2 - Missing Authorization To Authenticated (Author+) Information Disclosure

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-12-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The Gutenberg Essential Blocks – Page Builder for Gutenberg Blocks & Patterns plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing or incorrect capability checks on the get_instagram_access_token_callback, google_map_api_key_save_callback and get_siteinfo functions in all versions up to, and including, 5.7.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to view API keys configured for the external services.

Affected products

• wpdevteam Gutenberg Essential Blocks – Page Builder for Gutenberg Blocks & Patterns: through 5.7.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/tags/5.7.0/includes/Integrations/GoogleMap.php#L50
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/tags/5.7.0/includes/Integrations/Instagram.php#L20
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/tags/5.7.0/includes/Integrations/OpenVerse.php#L108
• https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2025-11369/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7e5b1e90-53f7-4afc-9544-c36afe1ee813?source=cve

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