# CVE-2026-124649: Lightbox with PhotoSwipe stored XSS in image captions via comment link titles

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-125866
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Attention: Reference. No open trigger. (last checked 2026-11-14)
- Fixed in: 5.19.0
- Published: 2026-11-14 · Updated: 2026-11-14

CVE-2026-124649 is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. No public exploit code is tracked. It affects Lightbox with PhotoSwipe; fixed in 5.19.0.

## Summary

The Lightbox with PhotoSwipe WordPress plugin does not properly sanitise link titles and other caption sources before inserting them as HTML into image lightbox captions. An unauthenticated attacker can submit a comment containing malicious code, which is stored and runs as cross-site scripting when the caption is displayed.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- Unknown Lightbox with PhotoSwipe: fixed in 5.19.0

## Description

The Lightbox with PhotoSwipe WordPress plugin before 5.19.0 does not properly sanitise link titles and other caption sources before inserting them as HTML into the image lightbox caption, allowing unauthenticated users to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks via comments.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Lightbox with PhotoSwipe, upgrade to a fixed version (5.19.0) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, run the stack.check operation (execute) on the cve.now MCP server (https://mcp.cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Check your systems with an agent

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Check whether my systems are affected by CVE-2026-124649 (Lightbox with PhotoSwipe < 5.19.0 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS via Comment Link Title), using the cve.now data below.

Rules: work read-only. Do not run exploit code, proof-of-concept scripts or scanners that send attack payloads, and do not change any configuration, package, image or deployment. Report findings only.

What cve.now has for CVE-2026-124649 (entry last updated 2026-11-14):
Affected:
- Unknown Lightbox with PhotoSwipe: fixed in 5.19.0
Fixed versions: 5.19.0.
Setup: unknown whether the bug needs a non-default feature or setting. Check the advisory.
CISA KEV: CVE-2026-124649 is not listed as of cve.now's last read.
This KEV status is for CVE-2026-124649 only. If you also check another CVE, look up its own KEV status; never assume it from this one.

How to check:
- Installed software: check what is actually running, not what a repo declares. Read the version from each host, container image and Kubernetes node (the binary's version output, the OS package database, image layers), and check whether the conditions above hold there. Distribution packages may carry a backported fix under an older version number; confirm against the distribution's own advisory.

Verify against the linked advisories before concluding, and cite the date you read each one:
- the references on https://cve.now/CVE-2026-124649
Do not conclude an asset is unaffected unless you checked it and the evidence covers both its version and the conditions above. If you could not check something, mark it unknown and say what is missing.

Report a table with one row per asset and these columns: Asset | Version or build | Status (affected, fixed, not applicable, unknown) | Compensating controls | Exposure (internet-facing, internal, none) | Evidence | Next action.

Entry: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-124649
For follow-up questions, use the cve.now MCP server at https://mcp.cve.now/mcp (no authentication), for example execute with name cve.get and arguments {"id": "CVE-2026-124649"}.
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## FAQ

### Is CVE-2026-124649 being exploited?

It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. No public exploit code is tracked.

Source: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-124649

### Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-124649?

Lightbox with PhotoSwipe: before 5.19.0.

Source: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-124649

### How do I fix CVE-2026-124649?

Upgrade to a fixed version: 5.19.0.

Source: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-124649

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## References

### CVE record

Establishes: The identifier and description.

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-124649
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-124649

### Public exploit code

Establishes: Public exploit code exists (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei and GitHub).

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c2c4ba65-7e51-4ec1-b7a9-8248071c86de/

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