WP Video Lightbox <= 1.9.2 - Contributor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

5.4
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-24665
CVSS 5.4 (Medium)
Publicly Published August 23, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Vishnupriya Ilango - Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs

Description

The WP Video Lightbox WordPress plugin before 1.9.3 does not escape the attributes of its shortcodes, allowing users with a role as low as contributor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks

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Vulnerability Details for WP Video Lightbox

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-video-lightbox (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.9.3, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.9.2
Patched Version
  • 1.9.3

Recent vulnerabilities in WP Video Lightbox

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Multiple Plugins <= (Various Versions) - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via prettyPhoto JavaScript Library CVE-2025-2540 6.4 Webbernaut July 2, 2025
2 WP Video Lightbox <= 1.9.10 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via width Parameter CVE-2024-4324 6.4 Krzysztof Zając May 1, 2024
3 WP Video Lightbox <= 1.9.6 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode CVE-2022-4465 6.4 István Márton December 21, 2022
4 Video Lightbox <= 1.9.5 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting 4.8 July 4, 2022
5 WP Video Lightbox <= 1.9.4 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2022-2189 6.1 ZhongFu Su June 30, 2022
6 PrettyPhoto Library (Multiple Plugins and Themes) <= 3.1.4 - DOM Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2013-6837 6.1 Anant Shrivastava (anantshri), PeruCrack August 1, 2014

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