PT-2023-15063 · WordPress · Gallery Lightbox

Lana Codes · CVE-2022-4682 · Published 2023-02-13 · Updated 2023-02-23

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Lightbox Gallery WordPress plugin versions prior to 0.9.5

Description The issue concerns the Lightbox Gallery WordPress plugin, which does not properly validate and escape certain shortcode attributes. This could allow users with the contributor role or higher to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.9.5, update to version 0.9.5 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of the vulnerable shortcode attributes until a patch is applied.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-4682

Affected Products

Gallery Lightbox

References · 4

• 🔥 https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/5fc92954-20cf-4563-806e-e7a8e5ccfc72 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-4682 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4682 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/44239 · Telegram Post