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 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.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (22.1th 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.