CVE-2024-51631 HIGH

CVE-2024-51631: WordPress Sticky Social Bar plugin <= 2.0 - CSRF to Stored Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Vendor Md Eftakhairul Islam

Product Sticky Social Bar

Weakness CWE-352 · CSRF

Published November 19, 2024

Last update May 11, 2026

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CVSS base score

7.1/10

Attack vector Network

Attack complexity Low

Privileges required None

User interaction Required

Confidentiality Low

Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Md Eftakhairul Islam Sticky Social Bar sticky-social-bar allows Cross Site Request Forgery.This issue affects Sticky Social Bar: from n/a through <= 2.0.

Explanation of Vulnerability in Simple Terms

02Summary

Sticky Social Bar versions 2.0 and earlier are vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. An attacker can craft a malicious webpage that, when visited by a site administrator, performs unwanted actions on the site without the admin's knowledge or consent. The attack requires the admin to visit the attacker's page while logged into WordPress. This can lead to unauthorized changes to site settings or content.

What an attacker can do

03Attacker Capabilities

Perform unwanted actions on a site by tricking an admin into visiting a malicious webpage.

Potential impact on your site

04Site Impact

Administrators could unknowingly authorize changes to site settings or content via a malicious link.

Conditions required to exploit

05Prerequisites

Site admin must visit attacker-controlled webpage while logged into WordPress.

Key dates

06Disclosure timeline

November 19, 2024 CVE published

May 11, 2026 Record updated

External resources

07References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-51631 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/352.html AskarLabs — CWE-352 write-up Cross-Site Request Forgery

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