CVE-2023-6623criticalobserved exploitation

CVE-2023-6623: critical vulnerability in Essential Blocks

Essential Blocks < 4.4.3 - Unauthenticated Local File Inclusion

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97Vexday Risk Score

Patch now. It exploitation observed by VulnCheck and has a working public exploit.

ssvc Actcvss 9.8epss 51%
from disclosure to weapon
Published on NVDJan 15
VulnCheck+119d
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Unknown · Essential Blocks
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