Simple Lightbox < 2.9.4 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-3516",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Simple Lightbox < 2.9.4 - Contributor+ Stored XSS",
    "summary": "The Simple Lightbox WordPress plugin before 2.9.4 does not validate and escape some of its attributes before outputting them back in a page/post, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2025-3516",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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      "aliases": [
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L"
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              "type": "GIT",
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            "2.9.2",
            "2.9.1",
            "2.9.0",
            "2.8.1",
            "2.8.0",
            "2.7.1",
            "2.7.0",
            "2.6.0",
            "2.5.3",
            "2.5.1",
            "2.5.0",
            "2.4.0-rc1",
            "2.4.0-b3",
            "2.4.0-b2",
            "2.4.0-b1",
            "2.3.1",
            "2.3.0",
            "2.3.0-b3",
            "2.3.0-b2",
            "2.3.0-b1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-3516.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:48.699727533Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/3xxx/CVE-2025-3516.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-3516",
        "https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/336a78cd-297b-4f47-a007-e33eac7f1dad/"
      ],
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        "cna_assigner": "WPScan",
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                  }
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                "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
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      }
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        "value": "CVE-2025-3516",
        "evidence": "/id"
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    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 517120,
  "published_at": "2025-05-16T06:00:04.784+00:00"
}