# CVE-2025-3597: Firelight Lightbox < 2.3.15 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

> Contributors can execute arbitrary JavaScript via stored XSS in Firelight Lightbox when jQuery Metadata is enabled, affecting WordPress sites.

- **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:** 12 May 2025
- **Updated:** 12 May 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-hhrx-pjm2-54m9

## What is CVE-2025-3597?

CVE-2025-3597 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Firelight Lightbox, published on 12 May 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official 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.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-3597?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Firelightwp Firelight Lightbox.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-3597?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-3597 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-3597 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-3597 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Firelight Lightbox

- [CVE-2024-50460](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-50460/): WordPress Firelight Lightbox plugin <= 2.3.3 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (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-2025-3597 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-3597 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Firelight Lightbox, published on 12 May 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-3597 exists.

Affected product: Unknown 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-2025-3597/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-3597/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-3597
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-3597
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-3597

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-3597/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.