Stored cross-site scripting in FancyBox - CVE-2015-1494
Published: February 1, 2017 / Updated: March 10, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU5581
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:A/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-1494
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vendor: FancyBox
Affected software:
FancyBox
FancyBox
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-input. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to vulnerable website and permanently store arbitrary HTML and JavaScript code on it. The code will be executed in browser of every website visitor.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Note: the vulnerability was being actively exploited.
How to mitigate CVE-2015-1494
Update to version 3.0.3.