Kadence Gutenberg Blocks Plugin up to 3.1.26 on WordPress server-side request forgery

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Kadence Gutenberg Blocks Plugin up to 3.1.26 on WordPress. Affected is an unknown function. The manipulation results in server-side request forgery. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2023-6964. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Kadence Gutenberg Blocks Plugin up to 3.1.26 on WordPress. Affected is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a server-side request forgery vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-918. The web server receives a URL or similar request from an upstream component and retrieves the contents of this URL, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the request is being sent to the expected destination. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Gutenberg Blocks by Kadence Blocks – Page Builder Features plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.26 via the 'kadence_import_get_new_connection_data' AJAX action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services.

The advisory is available at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2023-6964 since 12/19/2023. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/14/2026).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Type

• WordPress Plugin

Vendor

• Kadence

Name

• Gutenberg Blocks Plugin

Version

• 3.1.0
• 3.1.1
• 3.1.2
• 3.1.3
• 3.1.4
• 3.1.5
• 3.1.6
• 3.1.7
• 3.1.8
• 3.1.9
• 3.1.10
• 3.1.11
• 3.1.12
• 3.1.13
• 3.1.14
• 3.1.15
• 3.1.16
• 3.1.17
• 3.1.18
• 3.1.19
• 3.1.20
• 3.1.21
• 3.1.22
• 3.1.23
• 3.1.24
• 3.1.25
• 3.1.26

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