# CVE-2026-118438: CVE-2026-118438

Status: published. Published: 2026-10-31. Updated: 2026-11-01.

The Firelight Lightbox WordPress plugin before 2.3.24 does not properly escape image attribute values before processing them in the browser, which could allow users with contributor-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute when another user views or previews the affected content.

## Remediation

No remediation reported in collected sources

## Affected products and versions

Not reported in collected sources.

## Severity and prioritization

- CVSS 3.1: 6.8 (medium); CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H; source: NVD: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

- CISA KEV: No listing in collected sources

- EPSS: Not available

- SSVC: exploitation none; automatable no; technical impact total; source NVD SSVC: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

- Weaknesses: CWE-79

## Exploit evidence

No exploit evidence in collected sources. This is not proof of no exploitation.

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ddf2cb3f-3aa6-4994-8682-cdb2f4fc086e/ (contact@wpscan.com)

## Provenance

- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-118438; retrieved 2026-11-02; source updated 2026-11-01

Revision: fe36fc0e8810b195e081f6770e376857d780d579a149c1e8979cc016b61add53

Canonical: https://y2.dev/cve/CVE-2026-118438