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MEDIUM Received

CVE-2026-13458

The GenerateBlocks plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Dynamic Tag Injection in HTML Attributes in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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. A Contributor-level attacker can store the malicious payload by placing a dynamic tag such as {{post_meta key:...}} in a non-URL HTML attribute (e.g., title, aria-label, alt, or data-* attributes) of a GenerateBlocks element block, then setting the corresponding unprotected post meta key via the Custom Fields metabox to a value containing a closing quote and an injected event-handler attribute.

Published 01 Aug 2026, 09:16 UTC Last modified 01 Aug 2026, 09:16 UTC
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Attack profile

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Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low
Availability None
Exploitability3.1
Impact2.7
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