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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-06-03 | Published 2025-07-08 | Updated 2026-04-08 | Assigner Wordfence




MEDIUM: 6.4CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Problem types

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Product status

Default status
unaffected

Any version
affected

Timeline

2025-06-21:Vendor Notified
2025-07-07:Disclosed

Credits

Robert DeVore finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-b8ef-4dd1-a12b-cd9187145134?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...lightbox&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

cve.org (CVE-2025-5537)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-5537)

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