CVE-2024-5668

The Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin – FooBox plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to DOM-based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via HTML data attributes in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.28 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

CVSS v3 6.4 MEDIUM

6.4^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.1 / Impact : 2.7

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

Scope CHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3130678/foobox-image-lightbox	Patch
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/923f9e66-2e26-4ec2-a4b3-439881a6ca10?source=cve	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:themergency:foobox:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

History

01 Mar 2025, 02:14

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPE		cpe:2.3:a:themergency:foobox::::::wordpress::*
References	~~() https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3130678/foobox-image-lightbox -~~	() https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3130678/foobox-image-lightbox - Patch
References	~~() https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/923f9e66-2e26-4ec2-a4b3-439881a6ca10?source=cve -~~	() https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/923f9e66-2e26-4ec2-a4b3-439881a6ca10?source=cve - Third Party Advisory
First Time		Themergency Themergency foobox

Information

Published : 2024-08-08 05:15

Updated : 2025-03-01 02:14

NVD link : CVE-2024-5668

Mitre link : CVE-2024-5668

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-5668

JSON object : View

Products Affected

themergency

foobox

CWE

CWE-79

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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