CVE-2024-5668

Summary

CVE-2024-5668 is a DOM-based Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the FooBox plugin for WordPress, specifically versions up to and including 2.7.28. This issue stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in HTML data attributes. Consequently, authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher can inject arbitrary web scripts, which will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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