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CVE-2020-36747 Details

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.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

CNA: [email protected]CVSS-B:4.3 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
https://blog.nintechnet.com/25-wordpress-plugins-vulnerable-to-csrf-attacks/	CVE	ExploitTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
https://blog.nintechnet.com/more-wordpress-plugins-and-themes-vulnerable-to-csrf-attacks/	CVE	Not Applicable
https://blog.nintechnet.com/multiple-wordpress-plugins-fixed-csrf-vulnerabilities-part-1/	CVE	Not Applicable
https://blog.nintechnet.com/multiple-wordpress-plugins-fixed-csrf-vulnerabilities-part-2/	CVE	Not Applicable
https://blog.nintechnet.com/multiple-wordpress-plugins-fixed-csrf-vulnerabilities-part-3/	CVE	Not Applicable
https://blog.nintechnet.com/multiple-wordpress-plugins-fixed-csrf-vulnerabilities-part-4/	CVE	Not Applicable
https://blog.nintechnet.com/multiple-wordpress-plugins-fixed-csrf-vulnerabilities-part-5/	CVE	Not Applicable
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2368387%40sidebar-manager&new=2368387%40sidebar-manager&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=	CVE	Patch
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/844c5012-f823-46ae-8de2-e2803b7cd063?source=cve	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://blog.nintechnet.com/25-wordpress-plugins-vulnerable-to-csrf-attacks/	[email protected]	ExploitTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
https://blog.nintechnet.com/more-wordpress-plugins-and-themes-vulnerable-to-csrf-attacks/	[email protected]	Not Applicable
https://blog.nintechnet.com/multiple-wordpress-plugins-fixed-csrf-vulnerabilities-part-1/	[email protected]	Not Applicable
https://blog.nintechnet.com/multiple-wordpress-plugins-fixed-csrf-vulnerabilities-part-2/	[email protected]	Not Applicable
https://blog.nintechnet.com/multiple-wordpress-plugins-fixed-csrf-vulnerabilities-part-3/	[email protected]	Not Applicable
https://blog.nintechnet.com/multiple-wordpress-plugins-fixed-csrf-vulnerabilities-part-4/	[email protected]	Not Applicable
https://blog.nintechnet.com/multiple-wordpress-plugins-fixed-csrf-vulnerabilities-part-5/	[email protected]	Not Applicable
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2368387%40sidebar-manager&new=2368387%40sidebar-manager&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=	[email protected]	Patch
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/844c5012-f823-46ae-8de2-e2803b7cd063?source=cve	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-352	Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
brainstormforce lightweight sidebar manager	<= 1.1.5
CPE cpe:2.3:a:brainstormforce:lightweight_sidebar_manager::::::wordpress::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

7 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	CISA-ADP
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 8, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 7, 2023	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jul 8, 2023	Initial Analysis	[email protected]