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CVE-2025-12691 (GCVE-0-2025-12691)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-18 09:27 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:11

Title

Photonic Gallery & Lightbox for Flickr, SmugMug & Others <= 3.21 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Caption Attribute

Summary

The Photonic Gallery & Lightbox for Flickr, SmugMug & Others plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's lightbox functionality in all versions up to, and including, 3.21 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied caption attribute. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses the injected page.

Severity

6.4 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Assigner

Wordfence

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
sayontan	Photonic Gallery & Lightbox for Flickr, SmugMug & Others	Affected: 0 , ≤ 3.21 (semver)

Credits

Craig Smith

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FKIE_CVE-2025-12691

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-11-18 10:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 08:32

Severity

6.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
	security@wordfence.com	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3392284%40photonic&old=3336902%40photonic&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
	security@wordfence.com	https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9f21f4a4-4b50-4396-8d94-26d68c0eb3a3?source=cve

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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GHSA-C46C-7597-355P

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-11-18 12:30 – Updated: 2025-11-18 12:30

Details

Severity

6.4 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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Sightings

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Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
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Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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