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TI-2025-04182 Aliases CVE-2025-4684GHSA-r297-m3w3-56rc

Cross-site scripting in BlockSpare — News, Magazine and Blog Addons for Block Editor

Priority LOW 28CWE-79Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Cross-site scripting
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
Low · Low · None
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.

Summary

The BlockSpare: Gutenberg Blocks & Patterns for Blogs, Magazines, Business Sites – Post Grids, Sliders, Carousels, Counters, Page Builder & Starter Site Imports, No Coding Needed plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the HTML attributes of Image Carousel and Image Slider widgets in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.13.1 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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00286 21st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
blockspareBlockSpare — News, Magazine and Blog Addons for (Gutenberg) Block Editorup to 3.2.13.1—No fix listedCNA
  • BlockSpare — News, Magazine and Blog Addons for (Gutenberg) Block Editor Vendorblockspare Affected up to 3.2.13.1 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-4684
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-r297-m3w3-56rc

References

Other 2

  • TI-2025-29992 WordPress Blockspare plugin <= 3.2.9 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
  • TI-2024-31681 WordPress Blockspare plugin <= 3.2.4 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
  • TI-2024-28835 WordPress Blockspare plugin <= 3.2.0 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
  • TI-2024-07719 Cross-site scripting in BlockSpare — News, Magazine and Blog Addons for Block Editor CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.4
  • TI-2022-04562 Freemius SDK <= 2.4.2 - Missing Authorization Checks CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.3
  • TI-2024-12404 Freemius <= 2.10.1 - Reflected DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via url Parameter CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1
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Sources

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