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Nexter Blocks CVE-2026-17011

| EUVDEUVD-2026-54892 LOW
Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity (CWE-345)
2026-08-09 contact@wpscan.com GHSA-gf2c-5g46-3crp
3.8
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: wpscan

Severity by source

Vendor (wpscan) PRIMARY
3.8 LOW
AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
vuln.today AI
5.4 MEDIUM

Contributor role maps to PR:L not PR:H; network REST endpoint with no complexity; CSS-only impact yields no confidentiality loss and limited integrity and availability.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (wpscan).

CVSS VectorVendor: wpscan

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
High
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low

Lifecycle Timeline

5
Analysis Generated
Aug 11, 2026 - 23:23 vuln.today
CVSS changed
Aug 11, 2026 - 20:22 NVD
3.8 (LOW)
Patch available
Aug 09, 2026 - 07:16 EUVD
CVE Published
Aug 09, 2026 - 06:18 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)
CVE Published
Aug 09, 2026 - 06:18 cve.org
LOW 3.8

DescriptionCVE.org

The Nexter Blocks WordPress plugin before 5.0.2 does not restrict who can save global CSS through one of its REST endpoints, allowing users with at least the Contributor role to store arbitrary CSS that is rendered site-wide on the front end, enabling defacement, content hiding, and UI redressing.

AnalysisAI

Nexter Blocks WordPress plugin before 5.0.2 exposes a REST endpoint for saving global CSS that any Contributor-level user can invoke without proper authorization, causing injected styles to render site-wide for all visitors. The attack surface is limited to sites with untrusted Contributor accounts, and impact is constrained to front-end defacement, content suppression, and UI redressing - not code execution or data exfiltration. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been identified; EPSS of 0.10% at the 1st percentile confirms negligible exploitation probability at this time.

Technical ContextAI

Nexter Blocks is a Gutenberg-compatible block library for WordPress that extends the block editor with page-building capabilities. The vulnerability exists in a REST API endpoint the plugin provides for persisting global CSS, which is applied to every page of the site at render time. The missing control is authorization: the endpoint does not verify that the requesting user holds a role with sufficient trust to modify site-wide presentation assets. CWE-345 (Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity) is assigned, though CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) would be a more precise characterization - the flaw is a missing capability check on the REST route, not a cryptographic authenticity problem. All Nexter Blocks releases from 0 up to (but not including) 5.0.2 are confirmed affected per EUVD-2026-54892. The 'Information Disclosure' tag in the source intelligence appears to be a mis-tagging; the actual impact class is integrity (unauthorized data write), not disclosure.

RemediationAI

Update the Nexter Blocks plugin to version 5.0.2 or later, the confirmed patched release per WPScan and EUVD data. Updates can be applied via the WordPress admin dashboard under Plugins > Installed Plugins > Update, or via WP-CLI with 'wp plugin update nexter-blocks'. If immediate patching is not feasible, administrators should audit and revoke Contributor-role accounts for any users who should not have editorial access, and disable open user registration if the site does not require it - these steps eliminate the required foothold for exploitation. The trade-off of restricting Contributor access is reduced editorial workflow capacity on multi-author sites. Advisory references: WPScan (https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a702e5cb-0fb3-419e-81df-fa5b26c81402/) and VulDB (https://vuldb.com/vuln/387245).

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