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CVE-2025-5035

The Firelight Lightbox WordPress plugin before 2.3.16 does not sanitise and escape title attributes before outputting them in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributors to perform stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

MEDIUM 5.4EPSS 0.23%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.23%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

The Firelight Lightbox WordPress plugin before 2.3.16 does not sanitise and escape title attributes before outputting them in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributors to perform stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

CVSS 3.1
5.4 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS
0.23% probability · 14th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-79
Affected
firelightwp/firelight lightbox
Source
contact@wpscan.com
EPSS trend
0%3%5%26 October 2026: 0.23%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 0.2% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.