Lightbox & Modal Popup Plugin up to 2.7.28 on WordPress HTML Data Attribute HTML injection

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Lightbox & Modal Popup Plugin up to 2.7.28 on WordPress. This affects an unknown part of the component HTML Data Attribute Handler. The manipulation results in HTML injection. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2024-5668. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Lightbox & Modal Popup Plugin up to 2.7.28 on WordPress. Affected is an unknown function of the component HTML Data Attribute Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a html injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. This is going to have an impact on integrity. CVE summarizes:

The Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin – FooBox plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to DOM-based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via HTML data attributes in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.28 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.

The advisory is shared for download at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-5668 since 06/05/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• Lightbox & Modal Popup Plugin

Version

• 2.7.0
• 2.7.1
• 2.7.2
• 2.7.3
• 2.7.4
• 2.7.5
• 2.7.6
• 2.7.7
• 2.7.8
• 2.7.9
• 2.7.10
• 2.7.11
• 2.7.12
• 2.7.13
• 2.7.14
• 2.7.15
• 2.7.16
• 2.7.17
• 2.7.18
• 2.7.19
• 2.7.20
• 2.7.21
• 2.7.22
• 2.7.23
• 2.7.24
• 2.7.25
• 2.7.26
• 2.7.27
• 2.7.28

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