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CVE-2020-36747

MEDIUM

4.3

CVSS Severity Score

EPSS Score0.1990%

EPSS Percentile15.83th

PublishedJul 1, 2023

Last ModifiedApr 8, 2026

Vulnerability Description

The Lightweight Sidebar Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.1.4. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the metabox_save() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to save metbox data via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected Platforms (CPE)

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Brainstormforce

Lightweight Sidebar Manager

<= 1.1.5

References & Advisories

🔗 https://blog.nintechnet.com/25-wordpress-plugins-vulnerable-to-csrf-attacks/

🔗 https://blog.nintechnet.com/more-wordpress-plugins-and-themes-vulnerable-to-csrf-attacks/

🔗 https://blog.nintechnet.com/multiple-wordpress-plugins-fixed-csrf-vulnerabilities-part-1/

🔗 https://blog.nintechnet.com/multiple-wordpress-plugins-fixed-csrf-vulnerabilities-part-2/

🔗 https://blog.nintechnet.com/multiple-wordpress-plugins-fixed-csrf-vulnerabilities-part-3/

🔗 https://blog.nintechnet.com/multiple-wordpress-plugins-fixed-csrf-vulnerabilities-part-4/

🔗 https://blog.nintechnet.com/multiple-wordpress-plugins-fixed-csrf-vulnerabilities-part-5/

🔗 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2368387%40sidebar-manager&new=2368387%40sidebar-manager&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

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