Description
The Simple Lightbox WordPress plugin before 2.9.4 does not validate and escape some of its attributes before outputting them back in a page/post, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
Published: 2025-05-16
Score: 5.9 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-15412 The Simple Lightbox WordPress plugin before 2.9.4 does not validate and escape some of its attributes before outputting them back in a page/post, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
History

Thu, 22 May 2025 17:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Archetyped
Archetyped simple Lightbox
Weaknesses CWE-79
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:archetyped:simple_lightbox:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Vendors & Products Archetyped
Archetyped simple Lightbox

Fri, 16 May 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Fri, 16 May 2025 06:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description The Simple Lightbox WordPress plugin before 2.9.4 does not validate and escape some of its attributes before outputting them back in a page/post, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
Title Simple Lightbox < 2.9.4 - Contributor+ Stored XSS
References

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Archetyped Simple Lightbox
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2025-05-16T17:10:23.868Z

Reserved: 2025-04-11T12:25:12.810Z

Link: CVE-2025-3516

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-05-16T17:10:08.824Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-05-16T06:15:46.343

Modified: 2025-05-22T17:03:25.230

Link: CVE-2025-3516

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses