CVE-2023-5945 — The video carousel slider with lightbox plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cr

The video carousel 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 responsive_video_gallery_with_lightbox_video_management_func() function. This makes it possible for

01What is this vulnerability?

The video carousel 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 responsive_video_gallery_with_lightbox_video_management_func() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete videos hosted from the video slider via a forged request granted they can trick a…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
nik00726	video carousel slider with lightbox	1.0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-11-03T12:31:29.214Z
• Last modified: 2025-02-05T18:51:45.144Z

09References

• www.wordfence.com — https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dc052b00-65a7-4668-8bd…
• github.com — https://github.com/wp-plugins/wp-responsive-video-gallery-with-lightbox/blob/mas…
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org — https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-responsive-video-gallery-with-ligh…