WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Responsive Lightbox2 < 1.0.3 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Description

The ‘hyperlink’ field in used while linking an image from a URL was found to be vulnerable to stored XSS, as they did not sanitize user given input properly before publishing the post. It is triggered when a users loads a page where the plugin shortcode is used. All WordPress websites using Responsive Lightbox2 version 1.0.2 and below are affected

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 1.0.3

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Melbin K Mathew
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2020-08-17 (about 5 years ago)
Added
2020-08-17 (about 5 years ago)
Last Updated
2020-08-19 (about 5 years ago)

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