CVE-2026-96256

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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.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/606f25d9-f8c7-416a-8bb8-0cc57901ff5a?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3715353%40essential-blocks%2Ftags%2F6.4.6&old=3706819%40essential-blocks%2Ftags%2F6.4.5

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3715353/essential-blocks/trunk/assets/blocks/google-map/frontend.js

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/browser/essential-blocks/tags/6.4.5/includes/Blocks/GoogleMap.php#L82

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/6.3.0/src/blocks/google-map/src/save.js#L35

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/assets/blocks/google-map/frontend.js#L1

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-90594

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-01

Updated: 2026-10-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.4

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00292