Zero-Day Advisory

Fortinet Discovers WordPress FooGallery Lightbox Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress FooGallery Plugin.

FooGallery is an easy-to-use WordPress gallery plugin, with stunning gallery layouts. It is also responsive, retina-ready and supports lazy loading for lightning fast photo galleries. It's a popular plugin with over 200,000 installations.

The vulnerability is caused by improper sanitization of user input in the image title or caption parameters in the gallery media upload editor. Thereby it can lead to an XSS in the default lightbox feature.

Solutions

FortiGuard Labs released the following FortiGate IPS signature which covers this specific vulnerability:

WordPress.Plugin.FooGallery.Lightbox.XSS
Released May 08, 2020

Update to the version 1.9.25 or above.

Timeline

Fortinet reported the vulnerability to FooPlugins on April 10, 2020

FooPlugins confirmed the vulnerability on April 16, 2020 

FooPlugins released patch for the vulnerability on May 4, 2020

References

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/foogallery/#developers
  

  https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/foogallery/trunk/README.txt

  
  

Acknowledgement

This vulnerability was discovered by VishnuPriya Ilango of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.

IPS Subscription

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