CVE-2025-3649
Published: 12 May 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-3649 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Lightpress Lightbox. Its CVSS base score is 6.8 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 35.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-14272
Vulnerability details
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.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The stored XSS vulnerability in the public-facing WordPress plugin enables low-privileged authenticated users to inject malicious JavaScript executed in higher-privileged users' browsers upon interaction, mapping to exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190) and JavaScript execution (T1059.007).
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.