CVE-2025-1664

MEDIUM

Wpdeveloper Essential Blocks < 5.3.2 - XSS

Title source: rule

Description

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.

References (2)

[Patch] https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3250957/essential-blocks/tags/5.3.2/assets/blocks/parallax-slider/frontend.js

[Third Party Advisory] https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6abfa01b-e2ec-412c-a17d-e8bd1f5ac228?source=cve

Scores

CVSS v3 6.4

EPSS 0.0008

EPSS Percentile 22.7%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Classification

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Affected Products (1)

wpdeveloper/essential_blocks < 5.3.2

Timeline

Published Mar 08, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026