WP CTA – Call To Action Plugin, Sticky CTA, Sticky Buttons <= 1.7.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Sticky Status Update

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-8152
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published August 1, 2025
Last Updated August 2, 2025
Researcher Sushi Com Abacate
Description

The WP CTA – Call To Action Plugin, Sticky CTA, Sticky Buttons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'update_cta_status' and 'change_sticky_sidebar_name' functions in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the status of a sticky and update the name displayed in the back-end WP CTA Dashboard.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug easy-sticky-sidebar (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.7.0
Patched Version
  • 1.7.1
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