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Thumbnail Slider With Lightbox <= 1.0 — Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary File Upload

CVE-2023-5820Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: 1.0 – 1.0Update to 1.0.1 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
High8.3
CVSS
8.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:H Attack complexity
High
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:R User interaction
Required
S:C Scope
Changed
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-352 CSRF
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

Thumbnail Slider With Lightbox wp-responsive-slider-with-lightbox

  1. Affected1.0 – 1.0
  2. Patched in1.0.1

Update to 1.0.1 or newer.

You are affected if you run 1.0 – 1.0. Version 1.0.1 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Thumbnail Slider With Lightbox.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.0.1, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Thumbnail Slider With Lightbox to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Ala Arfaoui.

The Thumbnail Slider With Lightbox plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in version 1.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the addedit functionality. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Thumbnail Slider With Lightbox

All 6
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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.0.21Update to 1.0.22
—
Medium4.9Authenticated (Admin+) SQL Injection
≤1.0.4Update to 1.0.5
CVE-2015-10146
Medium4.4Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Image Title
≤1.0Update to 1.0.1
CVE-2023-5621
Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery
≤1.0Update to 1.0.1
CVE-2023-5531
High8.2Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.0.17Update to 1.0.18
—

Same weakness (CSRF)

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 8.3

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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