Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin – FooBox

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1. ★★★★★ tomaszgronczewski

   3mo ago

   FooGallery and FooBox are a unique and complete combination of sleek tools for organizing and displaying photo galleries in an Ajax Lightbox within WordPress posts.FooBox itself offers very attractive ways to display images with captions and many customization options. It works both on the front end and in the admin backend within the Gutenberg editor.

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2. ★★★★★ Ronald Huereca

   6mo ago

   FooBox works great ouf of the box (pun intended) and is well-suited for sites that need a quick image lightbox plugin that plays well with others. The default lightbox theme provided is professionally made and well-suited for showcasing screenshots, portfolio items, photography, and more. If you need more layout choices and compatibility with even the peskiest lightbox plugins, please check out Pro, as it’s the only license I don’t hesitate to renew.

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3. ★★★★★ vulpecula

   7mo ago

   The freemium.php file used by this plugin raises php warnings, not safe. PHP warning: Deprecation: Using null as an array offset is deprecated, use an empty string insteadThis should be fixed, thanks This topic was modified 5 months, 1 week ago by vulpecula.

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4. ★★★★★ igormig

   8mo ago

   A simple and convenient plugin. Just what I needed to replace “Image Zoom”, which isn’t updated and doesn’t support modern PHP versions.

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5. ★★★★★ kpolljonker

   1.3y ago

   DIsmissing it once should be enough, instead it keeps begging me to leave a review. Well here it is: 1 star for constantly annoying me until I went to waste time leaving a review

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6. ★★★★★ tasmanianflora

   1.4y ago

   I’ve been using FooBox for several years now and find it a superb plugin for my flora of Tasmania website. Superb and easy to use.

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7. ★★★★★ jonbius

   1.8y ago

   Thanks for a great, simple to use plugin!

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8. ★★★★★ rinsanrinsan

   2.3y ago

   カスタマイズ性能バツ牛ンで最高です

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 2.8.4 Updated 22 Jul 2026 New : Added a Block Editor help tab to the FooBox Getting Started admin pages. 2.8.4
2. — Version 2.8.3 Updated 21 Jul 2026 Fix : Kept FooBox controls visible in the WordPress 7 block inspector’s Content tab. Fix : Applied each Gutenberg Gallery block’s selected FooBox style and opening effect to its lightbox instance. 2.8.3
3. — Version 2.8.2 Updated 21 Jul 2026 Fix : Improved handling of encoded markup in caption titles and descriptions while preserving supported HTML formatting. 2.8.2
4. — Version 2.8.1 Updated 20 Jul 2026 Update : updated to Freemius SDK v2.13.4 Docs : clarified which Gutenberg content handlers and opening effects require FooBox Pro. Fix : Sanitized WordPress caption titles and descriptions before rend 2.8.1
5. — Version 2.8.0 Updated 25 Jun 2026 New : Added FooBox block editor controls for Button, Image, Gallery, and Group blocks. New : Added Button block support for image and auto-detected lightbox targets, plus FooBox Pro HTML content, ifra 2.8.0
6. — Version 2.7.44 Updated 27 May 2026 Fix : Fixed a PHP warning in the WP Rocket compatibility layer when inline defer exclusions are passed as an array. Fix : Prevented Google Analytics tracking handlers from throwing JavaScript errors w 2.7.44

7 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 6.1 Freemius <= 2.10.1 - Reflected DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via url Parameter ↗
   2026-04-30 CVE-2024-13362 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.7.33 Patched in 2.7.34
2. Medium · 6.4 Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin – FooBox <= 2.7.34 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2025-07-07 CVE-2025-5537 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.7.34 Patched in 2.7.35
3. Medium · 6.4 FooBox Image Lightbox <= 2.7.33 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2025-04-04 CVE-2025-32139 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.7.33 Patched in 2.7.34
4. Medium · 6.4 Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin – FooBox <= 2.7.28 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via HTML Data Attributes ↗
   2024-08-07 CVE-2024-5668 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.7.28 Patched in 2.7.32
5. Medium · 4.4 Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin – FooBox (Free and Premium) <= 2.7.27 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2024-05-28 CVE-2024-3276 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.7.27 Patched in 2.7.28
6. Medium · 6.3 Freemius SDK <= 2.4.2 - Missing Authorization Checks ↗
   2022-03-04 CVE-2022-4974 Missing Authorization Affects < 2.7.17 Patched in 2.7.17
7. High · 8.8 Freemius SDK <= 2.2.3 - Missing Authorization to Arbitrary Options Update ↗
   2019-02-25 Missing Authorization Affects < 2.6.4 Patched in 2.6.4

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 59 languages, 2 at 90% or more

Plus 35 more locales with partial translations.

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Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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• Modal Window – create popup modal window 10K+ installs · 3.8★ · 3 shared tags B
• T Themify Popup 8K+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags A
• Light Modal Block 2K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags A

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Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin – FooBox: 100K+ active installs, 3.9★ (95 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-25. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/foobox-image-lightbox