WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Lightbox slider – Responsive Lightbox Gallery <= 1.10.6 - Author+ Stored XSS

Description

The plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting 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.

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
simple-lightbox-gallery
No known fix

References

CVE
CVE-2024-49280
URL
https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/simple-lightbox-gallery/wordpress-lightbox-slider-responsive-lightbox-gallery-plugin-1-10-0-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability

Classification

Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79
CVSS
5.9 (medium)

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Robert DeVore
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
21bfb072-3258-423d-925c-7c3f1f9e6fd8

Timeline

Publicly Published
2024-10-15 (about 1 year ago)
Added
2024-10-18 (about 1 year ago)
Last Updated
2026-02-24 (about 18 days ago)

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