Description
The Lightbox with PhotoSwipe WordPress plugin before 5.9.0 does not sanitise or escape a link data attribute before rendering it into the image lightbox caption in the browser, allowing users with author-level access and above (who lack the unfiltered_html capability) to store JavaScript that runs when a visitor or administrator opens the lightbox.
Published: 2026-07-31
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Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:30:00 +0000

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Description The Lightbox with PhotoSwipe WordPress plugin before 5.9.0 does not sanitise or escape a link data attribute before rendering it into the image lightbox caption in the browser, allowing users with author-level access and above (who lack the unfiltered_html capability) to store JavaScript that runs when a visitor or administrator opens the lightbox.
Title Lightbox with PhotoSwipe < 5.9.0 - Author+ Stored XSS via data-lbwps-caption Attribute
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2026-07-31T06:00:06.879Z

Reserved: 2026-07-06T09:51:49.570Z

Link: CVE-2026-14833

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