CVE-2025-5537

MEDIUM

FooBox < 2.7.34 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Image Alternative Text

Title source: llm

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.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Patch

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=

Third Party Advisory

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b5fd2163-b8ef-4dd1-a12b-cd9187145134?source=cve

Scores

CVSS v3 6.4

EPSS 0.0017

EPSS Percentile 6.7%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Products (2)

fooplugins/foobox < 2.7.35

fooplugins/Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin – FooBox < 2.7.34

Published Jul 08, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026