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CVE-2026-4658: Gutenberg Essential Blocks <= 6.0.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Block Attributes
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-05-02 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-79
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.
Affected products
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/tags/6.0.4/includes/Blocks/AddToCart.php#L118
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/tags/6.0.4/includes/Blocks/AddToCart.php#L120
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/tags/6.0.4/includes/Blocks/AddToCart.php#L65
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/tags/6.0.4/includes/Blocks/AddToCart.php#L66
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/trunk/includes/Blocks/AddToCart.php#L118
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/trunk/includes/Blocks/AddToCart.php#L120
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/trunk/includes/Blocks/AddToCart.php#L65
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/trunk/includes/Blocks/AddToCart.php#L66
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3516287%40essential-blocks%2Ftags%2F6.1.0%2Fincludes%2FBlocks%2FAddToCart.php&old=3178777%40essential-blocks%2Ftrunk%2Fincludes%2FBlocks%2FAddToCart.php
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3e7eed9d-2d44-4951-b66b-7d8995ca617d?source=cve
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