WP Lightbox 2 < 3.0.7 - Admin+ Stored XSS

The WP Lightbox 2 WordPress plugin before 3.0.7 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

Problem type

CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Affected products

Unknown

WP Lightbox 2

< 3.0.7 - AFFECTED

References

wpscan.com

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e0536061-140d-47eb-9e8b-9785b52c62f7/

exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description

JSON source

https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2026-1430

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