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CVE-2025-12359: Responsive Lightbox & Gallery <= 2.5.3 - Authenticated (Author+) Server-Side Request Forgery

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-11-19 · updated 2026-10-18
• Weakness: CWE-918

Description

The Responsive Lightbox & Gallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.3 via the 'get_image_size_by_url' function. This is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied URLs when determining image dimensions for gallery items. 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.

Affected products

• dfactory Responsive Lightbox & Gallery: through 2.5.3

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/responsive-lightbox/tags/2.5.3/includes/class-fast-image.php#L25
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/responsive-lightbox/tags/2.5.3/includes/class-frontend.php#L1531
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/responsive-lightbox/tags/2.5.3/includes/class-galleries.php#L3648
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/responsive-lightbox/tags/2.5.3/includes/functions.php#L108
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3397940%40responsive-lightbox%2Ftrunk&old=3358021%40responsive-lightbox%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://research.cleantalk.org/cve-2025-12359
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7f4c0bd6-f289-4a52-ac11-345076c32d84?source=cve

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