# CVE-2024-50460: WordPress Firelight Lightbox plugin <= 2.3.3 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

> Attackers can inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by other users via the Firelight Lightbox plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.9 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 28 Oct 2024
- **Updated:** 12 May 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-7m46-88q5-mp7g

## What is CVE-2024-50460?

CVE-2024-50460 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Firelight Lightbox, published on 28 Oct 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Firelight Firelight Lightbox easy-fancybox allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Firelight Lightbox: from n/a through <= 2.3.3.

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-50460?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Firelightwp Firelight Lightbox.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-50460?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-50460 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-50460 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-50460 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Firelight Lightbox

- [CVE-2025-3597](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-3597/): Firelight Lightbox < 2.3.15 - Contributor+ Stored XSS (medium 5.9)
- [CVE-2025-5035](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5035/): Firelight Lightbox < 2.3.16 - Contributor+ Stored XSS (medium 5.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-50460 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-50460 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Firelight Lightbox, published on 28 Oct 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-50460 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Firelight Lightbox. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-50460/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-50460/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-50460
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50460
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-50460

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-50460/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.