CVE-2025-3662VulnerabilityPublished 3 Jun 2025

CVE-2025-3662: FancyBox for WordPress · Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Affects FancyBox for WordPressSource CVE Database V5

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 6.1 Medium.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 06:26 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

6.1Medium

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 15% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: Required
Scope: Changed
Confidentiality: Low
Integrity: Low
Availability: None

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: None: The attacker is unauthorized prior to attack, and therefore does not require any access to settings or files to carry out an attack.
User Interaction: Required: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires a user to take some action before the vulnerability can be exploited.
Scope: Changed: An exploited vulnerability can affect resources beyond the security scope managed by the security authority of the vulnerable component. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are different and managed by different security authorities.
Confidentiality: Low: There is some loss of confidentiality. Access to some restricted information is obtained, but the attacker does not have control over what information is obtained, or the amount or kind of loss is limited. The information disclosure does not cause a direct, serious loss to the impacted component.
Integrity: Low: Modification of data is possible, but the attacker does not have control over the consequence of a modification, or the amount of modification is limited. The data modification does not have a direct, serious impact on the impacted component.
Availability: None: There is no impact to availability within the impacted component.

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 3 Jun 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-26.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
Unknown FancyBox for WordPress	Affected =0	Fixed in–

AI-suggested

European organizations should immediately verify if their WordPress sites use the FancyBox plugin and identify the installed version. If the version is prior to 3.3.6, they should prioritize upgrading to the latest patched version as soon as it becomes available. In the interim, organizations can implement Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules to detect and block suspicious inputs targeting gallery captions and titles, focusing on common XSS payload patterns. Content Security Policy (CSP) headers should be enforced to restrict the execution of inline scripts and reduce the impact of any injected malicious code. Site administrators should audit user-generated content and sanitize existing gallery captions to remove potentially malicious scripts. Additionally, monitoring web server logs and user reports for unusual activity or complaints related to site behavior can help detect exploitation attempts early. Educating content contributors about safe input practices and restricting upload permissions to trusted users can also reduce risk. Finally, organizations should maintain regular backups and have an incident response plan ready to address any compromise resulting from this vulnerability.

Description

The FancyBox for WordPress plugin before 3.3.6 does not escape captions and titles attributes before using them to populate galleries' caption fields. The issue was received as a Contributor+ Stored XSS, however one of our researcher (Marc Montpas) escalated it to an Unauthenticated Stored XSS

Impact

For European organizations using WordPress sites with the FancyBox plugin, this vulnerability poses a significant risk to website visitors and potentially to site administrators. Exploitation could lead to theft of user credentials, session tokens, or other sensitive information through malicious script execution. This can result in account compromise, unauthorized actions on behalf of users, or reputational damage due to defacement or phishing. Since WordPress powers a substantial portion of websites across Europe, including corporate, governmental, and e-commerce platforms, the impact could be widespread. Attackers could leverage this vulnerability to target customers or employees, especially if the affected sites handle sensitive data or provide critical services. The unauthenticated nature of the exploit increases risk, as attackers do not need credentials to inject malicious content. Additionally, the scope change in the CVSS vector suggests that the vulnerability could affect multiple components or users beyond the initial injection point, amplifying potential damage. Although no active exploits are known yet, the medium severity score and ease of exploitation warrant prompt attention to prevent future attacks.

CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (opens in a new tab)
Base weaknessLikelihood of exploit: HighCWE Top 25 (2025): #1OWASP Top 10 A05:2025: Injection (opens in a new tab)
The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.
Architecture and Design · Libraries or Frameworks
Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
Implementation · Architecture and Design
Understand the context in which your data will be used and the encoding that will be expected. This is especially important when transmitting data between different components, or when generating outputs that can contain multiple encodings at the same time, such as web pages or multi-part mail messages.
Architecture and Design · Implementation · Attack Surface Reduction
Understand all the potential areas where untrusted inputs can enter your software: parameters or arguments, cookies, anything read from the network, environment variables, reverse DNS lookups, query results, request headers, URL components, e-mail, files, filenames, databases, and any external systems that provide…
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Cross Site Scripting Prevention (opens in a new tab)
DOM based XSS Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Injection Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Abuse Case (opens in a new tab)
Deserialization (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V5.3.3 (opens in a new tab)
V1.5.1 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch (opens in a new tab)
DOM-Based XSS (opens in a new tab)
Reflected XSS (opens in a new tab)
Stored XSS (opens in a new tab)
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/4cda12f0-3c23-44ad-80ea-db2443ebcf82/ (opens in a new tab)

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AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 11 Jul 2025, 06:48 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-79

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