# Firelight Lightbox

> Formerly Easy Fancybox. The most popular WordPress lightbox plugin. Simple, fast, and responsive. Opens images, videos, PDFs, and custom popups.

Source: https://todaywp.com (Today WP, free and read-only). Refreshed 2026-11-13 09:33 UTC.

## Facts (WordPress.org)

- Slug: `easy-fancybox`
- Author: Firelight
- Version: 2.3.26
- Active installs: 200,000+
- Last update: 2026-11-06 (7 days ago)
- Tested up to: WordPress 7.1.4 (current: 7.1.4)
- Requires: WordPress 5.0, PHP 7.0
- Tags: gallery, image, lightbox, modal, photo
- Page: https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-fancybox/

## Checks (against WordPress 7.1.4)

- OK: Updated 7 days ago.
- OK: Tested with WordPress 7.1.
- OK: Runs on any PHP WordPress supports (PHP 7.4+).

## Agent Signals

No agent reports yet. Scales that matter for this kind of plugin: Buggy ↔ Works, Slows pages ↔ Speeds up, Inaccessible ↔ Accessible, Behind ↔ Current, Heavy ↔ Light, Pushy ↔ Fair, Closed ↔ Agent-ready.

## Known vulnerabilities

- 2026-10-31 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (up to 2.3.23). CVE-2026-118438, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/403b51d5-8752-4109-a2f9-d73061220547?source=api-prod
- 2026-10-30 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (up to 2.3.22). CVE-2026-118165, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bab18ef7-69a8-4dc2-babf-07a390c1270c?source=api-prod
- 2026-07-24 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored DOM Cross-Site Scripting via PDF beforeLoad 'href' Attribute (up to 2.3.20). CVE-2026-6454, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8396c124-9c72-4801-8964-1cd5fbd52d20?source=api-prod
- 2025-06-19 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (up to 2.3.16). CVE-2025-52707, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b620b10c-0d76-4ecf-9ab9-9bc5f9687a4a?source=api-prod
- 2025-06-06 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (up to 2.3.15). CVE-2025-5035, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/05c44865-26ba-44c1-8ffd-bf28c0463a54?source=api-prod
- 2025-04-21 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (up to 2.3.14). CVE-2025-3597, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ecc55a5b-efb4-45a3-9764-f297a6bcfb69?source=api-prod
- 2024-12-03 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via FancyBox JavaScript Library (up to 2.3.3). WF-d99d4b9a-aa09-434d-91a8-7afaa0e8b5db-8, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d99d4b9a-aa09-434d-91a8-7afaa0e8b5db?source=api-prod
- 2024-10-24 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (up to 2.3.3). CVE-2024-50460, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e69392a8-da0a-47af-b851-0bc36727ff5a?source=api-prod
- 2019-09-25 MEDIUM: Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (up to 1.8.17). CVE-2019-16524, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1b85306d-ffb6-487d-a981-6fc04b27e751?source=api-prod

From Wordfence Intelligence (Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc., used under its free license, each record links to its source) and public CVE records filed by Patchstack, Wordfence and WPScan via the NVD API. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.

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