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CVE-2025-1664

The Essential Blocks – Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks, Patterns & Templates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Parallax slider in all versions up to, and including, 5.3.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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.

Published

2025-03-08T12:15:36.010

Last Modified

2025-03-11T21:25:56.700

Status

Analyzed

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 6.4 (MEDIUM)

Weaknesses

Type: Secondary
CWE-79
Type: Secondary
CWE-79

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	wpdeveloper	essential_blocks	< 5.3.2	Yes

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3250957/essential-blocks/tags/5.3.2/assets/blocks/parallax-slider/frontend.js Patch ([email protected])
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6abfa01b-e2ec-412c-a17d-e8bd1f5ac228?source=cve Third Party Advisory ([email protected])