Essential Blocks <= 5.7.2 - Missing Authorization To Authenticated (Author+) Information Disclosure

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-11369
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published December 16, 2025
Last Updated February 11, 2026
Researcher Dmitrii Ignatyev
Description

The Gutenberg Essential Blocks – Page Builder for Gutenberg Blocks & Patterns plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing or incorrect capability checks on the get_instagram_access_token_callback, google_map_api_key_save_callback and get_siteinfo functions in all versions up to, and including, 5.7.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to view API keys configured for the external services.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug essential-blocks (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.7.2
Patched Version
  • 5.7.3
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