PT-2025-28330 · WordPress · Foobox

Robert Devore · Published 2025-07-08 · Updated 2025-07-10 · CVE-2025-5537

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: The Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin – FooBox plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 2.7.34

Description: The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via image alternative texts due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This allows 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.

Recommendations: For versions up to, and including, 2.7.34, update to a version that addresses the insufficient input sanitization and output escaping issue to prevent Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-5537

Affected Products

Foobox

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5537 · Security Note
• 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= · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-5537 · Vendor Advisory
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1942453103833538600 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/127933 · Telegram Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b5fd2163-b8ef-4dd1-a12b-cd9187145134?source=cve · Note
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1942499032107991510 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/128350 · Telegram Post