What is CVE-2024-5668?

CVE-2024-5668 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fooplugins Lightbox & Modal Popup Wordpress Plugin – Foobox, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-08-08.

How severe is CVE-2024-5668?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-5668 known to be exploited?

2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Fooplugins Lightbox & Modal Popup Wordpress Plugin – Foobox

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 a…

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (19.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Fooplugins Lightbox & Modal Popup Wordpress Plugin – Foobox — versions 0
Themergency Foobox

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

security@wordfence.com (Third Party Advisory)
security@wordfence.com (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-5668?: CVE-2024-5668 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fooplugins Lightbox & Modal Popup Wordpress Plugin – Foobox, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-08-08.
How severe is CVE-2024-5668?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-5668 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.