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CVE-2022-47594: WordPress Essential Blocks for Gutenberg plugin <= 3.8.5 - Broken Access Control

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 26/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.43% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
  • Fixed version: WPDeveloper Essential Blocks for Gutenberg 3.8.6.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to WPDeveloper Essential Blocks for Gutenberg 3.8.6 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Missing Authorization vulnerability in WPDeveloper Essential Blocks for Gutenberg allows Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels.This issue affects Essential Blocks for Gutenberg: from n/a through 3.8.5.

MediumCVSS 6.5 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Dec 13, 2024
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.4% · 37th percentile

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Action score

26

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
26 / 40 · 6.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.4%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
6.5
CNA · Patchstack
6.5
agree

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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VendorProduct
wpdeveloperessential blocks

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • wpdeveloper essential blocksbefore 3.8.6

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Patchstack). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • WPDeveloper Essential Blocks for Gutenberg

    • n/a and later · up to and including 3.8.5affectedfixed in 3.8.6

Same product

wpdeveloper: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2023-6623Essential Blocks < 4.4.3 - Unauthenticated Local File Inclusion
    54Plan
  • CVE-2023-4402Essential Blocks <= 4.2.0 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection via products
    39Monitor
  • CVE-2025-26871WordPress Essential Blocks plugin <= 4.8.3 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
    35Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2023-51359Dec 9, 2024 · WordPress Essential Blocks plugin <= 4.2.0 - Multiple Contributor+ Broken Access Control vulnerability
    35Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2023-51360Dec 9, 2024 · WordPress Essential Blocks plugin <= 4.2.0 - Multiple Subscriber+ Broken Access Control vulnerability
    35Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2024-12045Jan 8, 2025 · Essential Blocks – Page Builder Gutenberg Blocks, Patterns & Templates <= 5.0.9 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
    19Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
WPDeveloper Essential Blocks for Gutenberg3.8.6Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

Finders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

  • CVE-2023-477604 days apartWordPress Essential Blocks plugin <= 4.2.0 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
    35Monitor
  • CVE-2023-513594 days apartWordPress Essential Blocks plugin <= 4.2.0 - Multiple Contributor+ Broken Access Control vulnerability
    35Monitor
  • CVE-2023-513604 days apartWordPress Essential Blocks plugin <= 4.2.0 - Multiple Subscriber+ Broken Access Control vulnerability
    35Monitor
  • CVE-2025-2687174 days apartWordPress Essential Blocks plugin <= 4.8.3 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
    35Monitor
  • CVE-2024-30467187 days apartWordPress Essential Blocks plugin <= 4.4.9 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
    35Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
low · data can be read
Integrity
low · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
none
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
Low
Integrity impact
Low
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-862 · Missing Authorization

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

nvd-primary

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

Change log

  1. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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