Kadence Gutenberg Blocks Plugin up to 3.2.25 on WordPress Option cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Kadence Gutenberg Blocks Plugin up to 3.2.25 on WordPress. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Option Handler. Performing a manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2024-2509. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Kadence Gutenberg Blocks Plugin up to 3.2.25 on WordPress. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown functionality of the component Option Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The Gutenberg Blocks by Kadence Blocks WordPress plugin before 3.2.26 does not validate and escape some of its block options before outputting them back in a page/post where the block is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

The weakness was shared by Dmitrii Ignatyev. The advisory is shared at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-2509 since 03/15/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 3.2.26 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• WordPress Plugin

Vendor

• Kadence

Name

• Gutenberg Blocks Plugin

Version

• 3.2.0
• 3.2.1
• 3.2.2
• 3.2.3
• 3.2.4
• 3.2.5
• 3.2.6
• 3.2.7
• 3.2.8
• 3.2.9
• 3.2.10
• 3.2.11
• 3.2.12
• 3.2.13
• 3.2.14
• 3.2.15
• 3.2.16
• 3.2.17
• 3.2.18
• 3.2.19
• 3.2.20
• 3.2.21
• 3.2.22
• 3.2.23
• 3.2.24
• 3.2.25

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