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.
Published: 2023-07-01
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-24188 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.
History

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Title Lightweight Sidebar Manager <= 1.1.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Bypass
Weaknesses CWE-352

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Subscriptions

Brainstormforce Lightweight Sidebar Manager
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T17:04:22.089Z

Reserved: 2023-06-30T16:54:43.028Z

Link: CVE-2020-36747

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T17:37:06.945Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-07-01T06:15:09.350

Modified: 2026-04-08T18:17:11.400

Link: CVE-2020-36747

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses