Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Firelight Lightbox Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2025-5035
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Key Information:
- Vendor
WordPress
- Status
- Vendor
- CVE Published:
- 27 June 2025
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👾 Exploit Exists🟡 Public PoC
What is CVE-2025-5035?
A security issue exists in the Firelight Lightbox WordPress plugin prior to version 2.3.16, where the plugin fails to properly sanitize and escape title attributes. This vulnerability could lead to stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks, enabling users with contributor privileges to execute malicious scripts within the application, potentially compromising user sessions and delivering harmful content.
Affected Version(s)
Firelight Lightbox 0 < 2.3.16
Exploit Proof of Concept (PoC)
PoC code is written by security researchers to demonstrate the vulnerability can be exploited. PoC code is also a key component for weaponization which could lead to ransomware.