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.
History

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Fooplugins
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CPEs cpe:2.3:a:fooplugins:foobox:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Vendors & Products Fooplugins
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Tue, 08 Jul 2025 18:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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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.
Title Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin – FooBox <= 2.7.34 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2025-07-08T04:22:58.814Z

Updated: 2025-07-08T18:11:19.030Z

Reserved: 2025-06-03T15:28:54.266Z

Link: CVE-2025-5537

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-07-08T18:10:36.835Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-07-08T05:15:30.420

Modified: 2025-07-10T13:29:31.597

Link: CVE-2025-5537

cve-icon Redhat

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