vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: essential-blocks: CVE-2023-47760: Missing Authorization

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Nov 13, 2023
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Essential Blocks for Gutenberg plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access to AJAX actions due to a missing capability check on several functions in versions up to, and including, 4.2.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to invoke those functions. A nonce check was performed in all of them. However, the nonce was leaked on the profile page. CVE-2023-51360 appears to be a duplicate of this issue.

Solution

essential-blocks-plugin-cve-2023-47760
Title
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