Vulnerabilities and security researches foreasy-fancybox easy-fancybox

May 14, 2025

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2025-3597
Home page URL: Security reports for Easy FancyBox – WordPress Lightbox Plugin
Application: Easy FancyBox – WordPress Lightbox Plugin
Date: May 12, 2025
Research Description: The Firelight Lightbox WordPress plugin before 2.3.15 does not prevent users with post writing capabilities from executing arbitrary Javascript when the jQuery Metadata library is enabled. While this feature is meant to only be available to Pro version users, it can be activated in the free version too, making it theoretically exploitable there as well.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable

Dec 06, 2024

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-5020
Home page URL: Security reports for Easy FancyBox – WordPress Lightbox Plugin
Application: Easy FancyBox – WordPress Lightbox Plugin
Date: Dec 04, 2024
Research Description: Multiple plugins for WordPress are vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's bundled FancyBox JavaScript library (versions 1.3.4 to 3.5.7) in various versions 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.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable

Oct 27, 2024

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-50460
Home page URL: Security reports for Easy FancyBox – WordPress Lightbox Plugin
Application: Easy FancyBox – WordPress Lightbox Plugin
Date: Oct 28, 2024
Research Description: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in FirelightWP Firelight Lightbox allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Firelight Lightbox: from n/a through 2.3.3.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable

Jul 24, 2024

PSC, Research URL: PSC-2024-64504
Home page URL: Security reports for Easy FancyBox – WordPress Lightbox Plugin
Application: Easy FancyBox – WordPress Lightbox Plugin
Date: -
Research Description: The “Easy FancyBox” plugin, a recipient of the Plugin Security Certification (PSC) from CleanTalk, offers a secure and feature-rich solution for implementing lightboxes on WordPress websites. With over 200,000 active installations, this plugin is renowned for its lightweight and flexible functionality, providing users with a seamless experience for viewing images and media content.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: SAFE & CERTIFIED

Jun 06, 2024

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2019-16524
Home page URL: Security reports for Easy FancyBox – WordPress Lightbox Plugin
Application: Easy FancyBox – WordPress Lightbox Plugin
Date: Sep 26, 2019
Research Description: The easy-fancybox plugin before 1.8.18 for WordPress (aka Easy FancyBox) is susceptible to Stored XSS in the Settings Menu inc/class-easyfancybox.php due to improper encoding of arbitrarily submitted settings parameters. This occurs because there is no inline styles output filter.
Affected versions: Min -, max -.
Status: vulnerable