CVE-2023-6623 (GCVE-0-2023-6623)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-15 15:10
Modified
2025-06-11 16:37
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VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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.
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| Unknown | Essential Blocks |
Version: 0 ≤ |
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Nomenclature
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