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CVE-2024-5668

MEDIUM 5.4 CVSS 3.1
Published
August 8, 2024
Last modified
June 17, 2026
NVD status
Analyzed
Reported by
security@wordfence.com
Weakness
CWE-79
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Description

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.

Affected WordPress components

  • Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin – FooBox Plugin · foobox-image-lightbox
    Confirmed match Active
    Up to and including 2.7.28
    View on WordPress.org

A confirmed match is backed by the plugin or theme slug. A possible match is based on the product name only and should be verified.

Affected products and versions

  • fooplugins Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin – FooBox — Up to and including 2.7.28
  • themergency foobox — Before 2.7.32

References

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