CVE-2023-6623

Essential Blocks < 4.4.3 - Unauthenticated Local File Inclusion

State: Published
Severity: 9.8 Critical
Published: Jan 15, 2024
Updated: Jun 11, 2025
Reserved: Dec 8, 2023

Description

The Essential Blocks WordPress plugin before 4.4.3 does not prevent unauthenticated attackers from overwriting local variables when rendering templates over the REST API, which may lead to Local File Inclusion attacks.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.8 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Essential BlocksUnknown	before 4.4.3Affected

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/633c28e0-0c9e-4e68-9424-55c32789b41fexploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
https://wpscan.com/blog/file-inclusion-vulnerability-fixed-in-essential-blocks-4-4-3/

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