CVE-2022-0161

MEDIUM 6.1CVE-2022-0161 · Published 14/03/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-0161 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.1) vulnerability affecting ari fancy lightbox (ari-soft).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.88%, higher than 59.1% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.3.9 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
ari fancy lightbox ari-soft	`< 1.3.9`	`1.3.9`

Description

The ARI Fancy Lightbox WordPress plugin before 1.3.9 does not sanitise and escape the msg parameter before outputting it back in an admin page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2680993 · Patch
wpscan.com/vulnerability/6b37fa17-0dcb-47a7-b1eb-f9f6abb458c0 · Exploit

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