Essence

Essence has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2012; it is fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 6.1, and the most serious one scores 6.1 out of 10.

The most common weakness is Cross-Site Scripting, behind 1 of the records (100%).

The one issue recorded for Essence has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes it.

All of these findings were reported by Janne Ahlberg. Essence is installed on roughly 100 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The upstream project has not shipped an update in about 14 years, so new fixes are unlikely to arrive on their own.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSMedium

6.1/ 10

Patch Coverage100%

Open

Fixed

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Highest severity on recordCVSS 6.1

Essence < 1.1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

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Vulnerability Records

1 records


2012-09-29 00:00	Essence < 1.1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting Essence < 1.1	`N/A`	6.1 Medium	Janne Ahlberg	Yes

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Latestv0.2.1

Essence

Author

Aaron D. Campbell

0.0(0)

0/100

Last Updated

2012-08-05 (14y ago)

Active Installs

100+

Downloads

21,868

Requires WP

3.4+

Requires PHP

Created

2011-07-28 (15y ago)

Essence is an advanced WordPress Theme that is easy to use as a base to build your own theme