FKIE_CVE-2026-2479

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-02-25 09:16 - Updated: 2026-02-25 14:15
Severity ?
5.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
Summary
The Responsive Lightbox & Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.1. This is due to the use of `strpos()` for substring-based hostname validation instead of strict host comparison in the `ajax_upload_image()` function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application, which can be used to query and modify information from internal services.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/responsive-lightbox/tags/2.7.0/includes/class-remote-library.php#L329
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/responsive-lightbox/tags/2.7.0/includes/class-remote-library.php#L344
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/responsive-lightbox/trunk/includes/class-remote-library.php#L329
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3464566?contextall=1
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/44276b28-9509-4f59-936c-fff2ae404076?source=cve
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