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CVE-2025-3649: lightpress lightbox Cross-site Scripting

CVSS: 6.8v3.1MediumAnalyzed
Published 12-05-2025Last modified 12-05-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-3649 is a medium (CVSS 6.8) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in lightpress lightbox. EPSS estimates a 0.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38.4% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded. Fixed in 2.3.4.

Overall risk
37/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.8/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.46%
0%100%
Low · +0.02 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1reference

Timeline

  1. 12-05-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 12-05-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The LightPress Lightbox WordPress plugin before 2.3.4 does not check download links point to valid, non-Javascript URLs, allowing users with at least the contributor role to conduct Stored XSS attacks.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.46%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

38%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.02 pp

From 0.44% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.46%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (wpscan.com)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Lightpress1 product
Unknown1 product
Wordpress1 product
  • wp-jquery-lightbox≤ 2.3.3 (fixed in 2.3.4)

3 vendors · 3 products

References

2 links