Unauthorized administrative action via missing nonce validation
Published May 7, 2025 · Updated Apr 28, 2026
Cross-site request forgery in OTWthemes Sidebar Manager Light 1.18 and earlier allows remote attackers to perform an unauthorized action. The plugin fails to validate a WordPress nonce in an unspecified action-handling function, so a forged request executes with an administrator's session. Exploitation requires an administrator to click a malicious link or submit a crafted form; public records do not identify the resulting state change.
Summary
What happened
Cross-site request forgery in OTWthemes Sidebar Manager Light 1.18 and earlier allows remote attackers to perform an unauthorized action. The plugin fails to validate a WordPress nonce in an unspecified action-handling function, so a forged request executes with an administrator's session. Exploitation requires an administrator to click a malicious link or submit a crafted form; public records do not identify the resulting state change.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-47647
- Published
- May 7, 2025
- Updated
- Apr 28, 2026
- Vendor
- OTWthemes.com
- Product
- Sidebar Manager Light
- Classifications
- CWE-352, T1204.001
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- May 7, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 28, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <=1.18
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