What is CVE-2025-3516?

CVE-2025-3516 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Archetyped Simple_lightbox, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2025-05-16.

How severe is CVE-2025-3516?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

XSS in Archetyped Simple_lightbox

CVE-2025-3516

The Simple Lightbox WordPress plugin before 2.9.4 does not validate and escape some of its attributes before outputting them back in a page/post, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scri…

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (19.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L.

Affected products

Archetyped Simple_lightbox
Unknown Simple Lightbox — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-3516?: CVE-2025-3516 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Archetyped Simple_lightbox, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2025-05-16.
How severe is CVE-2025-3516?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.