Photonic Gallery & Lightbox for Flickr, SmugMug & Others <= 3.21 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Caption Attribute

6.4
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2025-12691
CVSS 6.4 (Medium)
Publicly Published November 17, 2025
Last Updated November 18, 2025
Researcher Webbernaut

Description

The Photonic Gallery & Lightbox for Flickr, SmugMug & Others plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's lightbox functionality in all versions up to, and including, 3.21 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied caption attribute. 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 the injected page.

Learn more about Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities and how to prevent them.

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Vulnerability Details for Photonic Gallery & Lightbox for Flickr, SmugMug & Others

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug photonic (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 3.22, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 3.21
Patched Version
  • 3.22

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