Vulnerability · Published Jul 9, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2026-13253Post Grid Gutenberg Blocks for News, Magazines, Blog Websites <= 5.0.31 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'moreResultsText' Block Attribute
Medium 6.4
In plain English
A medium-severity cross-site scripting in Post Grid Gutenberg Blocks – PostX from wpxpo. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 30% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
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.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| wpxpo | Post Grid Gutenberg Blocks – PostX | 0 – through 5.0.31 |
Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/070ccd70-22c3-47f1-9dce-a884bff9ea76?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-post/tags/5.0.27/blocks/Advanced_Search.php#L116
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-post/tags/5.0.28/blocks/Advanced_Search.php#L116
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-post/tags/5.0.28/blocks/Advanced_Search.php#L108
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-post/tags/5.0.28/classes/Blocks.php#L231
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-post/tags/5.0.27/blocks/Advanced_Search.php#L108
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-post/tags/5.0.27/classes/Blocks.php#L231
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3598669%40ultimate-post&new=3598669%40ultimate-post