CVE-2026-96256
The Gutenberg Essential Blocks – Page Builder for Gutenberg Blocks & Patterns plugin for WordPress…
- Risk score
- 43/100
- CVSS
- 6.4 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.3%
- Published
- 1 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- The Gutenberg Essential Blocks – Page Builder for Gutenberg Blocks & Patterns plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Google Map block's 'marker' attribute in versions up to, and including, 6.4.5 This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on marker title/conten…
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 6.4 medium
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/tags/6.3.0/assets/blocks/google-map/frontend.js#L1
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/tags/6.3.0/includes/Blocks/GoogleMap.php#L82
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/tags/6.3.0/src/blocks/google-map/src/save.js#L35
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/tags/6.4.5/assets/blocks/google-map/frontend.js#L1
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/tags/6.4.5/includes/Blocks/GoogleMap.php#L82
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/tags/6.4.5/src/blocks/google-map/src/save.js#L35
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3715353/essential-blocks/trunk/assets/blocks/google-map/frontend.js
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3715353%40essential-blocks%2Ftags%2F6.4.6&old=3706819%40essential-blocks%2Ftags%2F6.4.5
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/606f25d9-f8c7-416a-8bb8-0cc57901ff5a?source=cve
Original description
The Gutenberg Essential Blocks – Page Builder for Gutenberg Blocks & Patterns plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Google Map block's 'marker' attribute in versions up to, and including, 6.4.5 This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on marker title/content values, which are stored as JSON and then decoded and concatenated directly into raw HTML by the frontend script's InfoWindow content builder. 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.
Last activity 1 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.