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CVE-2026-13253 (GCVE-0-2026-13253)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-09 06:52 – Updated: 2026-07-09 17:33
VLAI
Title
Post Grid Gutenberg Blocks for News, Magazines, Blog Websites <= 5.0.31 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'moreResultsText' Block Attribute
Summary
The Ultimate Post plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'moreResultsText' block attribute of the ultimate-post/advanced-search block in versions up to and including 5.0.31. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the Advanced_Search::content() render callback: the attribute value is filtered with wp_kses(), which strips disallowed HTML tags but does NOT escape HTML special characters such as double quotes in plain text, and the result is then concatenated directly into the data-viewmoretext HTML attribute without esc_attr(). 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.
Severity
6.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-09 17:32 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
wpxpo Post Grid Gutenberg Blocks – PostX Affected: 0 , ≤ 5.0.31 (semver)
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Credits
PRISM
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