Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-4682

CVE-2025-4682:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Essential Blocks – Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks, Patterns & Templates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via HTML attributes in Slider and Post Carousel widgets in versions up to and including 5.4.0. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on May 26, 2025, and was assigned a CVSS v3.1 score of 6.4 (Medium) (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the Slider and Post Carousel widgets' HTML attributes. This security flaw is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation). The vulnerability affects the plugin's frontend.js files in both the slider and post-carousel components (WordPress Plugin, WordPress Plugin).

Impact

When exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever any user accesses the compromised page, potentially leading to session hijacking, credential theft, or other client-side attacks (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability was addressed in version 5.4.1 of the Essential Blocks plugin, as evidenced by the changelog (WordPress Plugin). Users are advised to update to this version or later to protect against this security issue.

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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