CVE-2024-4305 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Post Grid Gutenberg Blocks and WordPress Blog Plugin WordPress plugin before 4.1.0 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

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00207.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

Post Grid Gutenberg Blocks and WordPress Blog Plugin

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 4.1.0

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wpxpo:postx:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Project Subscriptions

Vendors	Products
Wpdownloadmanager Subscribe	Gutenberg Blocks For Wordpress Download Manager Subscribe
Wpxpo Subscribe	Postx Subscribe

Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/635be98d-4c17-4e75-871f-9794d85a2eb1/

History

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00157}`	epss `{'score': 0.00178}`

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00069}`	epss `{'score': 0.00157}`

Tue, 13 May 2025 02:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Wpxpo Wpxpo postx
Weaknesses		CWE-79
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:wpxpo:postx::::::wordpress::*
Vendors & Products		Wpxpo Wpxpo postx

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-06-17T06:00:01.480Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:33:53.172Z

Reserved: 2024-04-29T09:28:43.622Z

Link: CVE-2024-4305

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-07-18T20:34:08.754Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-06-17T06:15:09.140

Modified: 2025-05-13T01:33:44.153

Link: CVE-2024-4305

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79

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