WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Lightbox with PhotoSwipe < 5.19.0 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS via Comment Link Title

Description

The plugin does not properly sanitise link titles and other caption sources before inserting them as HTML into the image lightbox caption, allowing unauthenticated users to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks via comments.

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 5.19.0

References

Classification

Type
XSS
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Nguyen Huy Tien
Submitter
Nguyen Huy Tien
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-11-12 (about 2 days ago)
Added
2026-11-12 (about 1 day ago)
Last Updated
2026-11-13 (about 7 hours ago)

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