Description

The Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin – FooBox plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via image alternative texts in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.34 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-5537

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 6.4

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected Products

Vendor: bradvin

Product: Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin – FooBox

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5537
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b5fd2163-b8ef-4dd1-a12b-cd9187145134?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3322273%40foobox-image-lightbox&new=3322273%40foobox-image-lightbox&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

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