---
id: CVE-2025-11270
title: >-
  The Gutenberg Essential Blocks – Page Builder for Gutenberg Blocks & Patterns
  plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the
  'titleTag' attribute in all versions up to, and including, 5.7.1 due to
  insufficient …
summary: >-
  The Gutenberg Essential Blocks – Page Builder for Gutenberg Blocks & Patterns
  plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the
  'titleTag' attribute in all versions up to, and including, 5.7.1 due to
  insufficient …
severity: medium
cvss: 6.4
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'
cwe:
  - CWE-79
published: '2025-10-18'
updated: '2026-10-09'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-09T10:10:00.193'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11270'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3376903/essential-blocks/trunk/views/woocommerce/title.php
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/aace327b-7091-48e2-9e02-ec48a08b129b?source=cve
    label: security@wordfence.com
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00254
epssPercentile: 0.15507
ingestedAt: '2026-10-09T12:53:29.213Z'
---

## Overview

The Gutenberg Essential Blocks – Page Builder for Gutenberg Blocks & Patterns plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'titleTag' attribute in all versions up to, and including, 5.7.1 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.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.