# CVE-2025-5093: Responsive Lightbox & Gallery < 2.5.2 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

> Contributors can inject malicious scripts via unescaped title attributes in the Responsive Lightbox & Gallery plugin, leading to stored XSS.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 27 Jun 2025
- **Updated:** 27 Jun 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-vpc7-8x7g-73gx

## What is CVE-2025-5093?

CVE-2025-5093 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Responsive Lightbox & Gallery, published on 27 Jun 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The Responsive Lightbox & Gallery WordPress plugin before 2.5.2 use the Swipebox library which does not validate and escape title attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where used, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

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

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-5093?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Dfactory Responsive Lightbox.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-5093?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-5093 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-5093 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-5093 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Responsive Lightbox & Gallery

- [CVE-2025-3742](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-3742/): Responsive Lightbox & Gallery < 2.5.1 - Contributor+ Stored XSS (medium 6.8)
- [CVE-2024-6870](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6870/): Responsive Lightbox & Gallery <= 2.4.7 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via File Upload (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2017-2243](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-2243/): Cross-site scripting in Responsive Lightbox (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2023-49174](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-49174/): WordPress Responsive Lightbox Plugin <= 2.4.5 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) (medium 5.9)
- [CVE-2024-43924](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-43924/): WordPress Responsive Lightbox & Gallery plugin <= 2.4.7 - Broken Access Control vulnerability (medium 5.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-5093 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-5093 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Responsive Lightbox & Gallery, published on 27 Jun 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, 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-2025-5093 exists.

Affected product: Unknown Responsive Lightbox & Gallery. 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-2025-5093/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5093/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-5093
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5093
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-5093

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-5093/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.