Lightweight Sidebar Manager

Lightweight Sidebar Manager has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2020; it is fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 4.3, and the most serious one scores 4.3 out of 10.

The most common weakness is Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), behind 1 of the records (100%).

The one issue recorded for Lightweight Sidebar Manager has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes it.

All of these findings were reported by Jerome Bruandet. Lightweight Sidebar Manager is installed on roughly 80,000 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSMedium
4.3/ 10
Patch Coverage100%
Open

0

Fixed

1

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Highest severity on recordCVSS 4.3CVE-2020-36747

Lightweight Sidebar Manager <= 1.1.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Bypass

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Vulnerability Records

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Latestv2.0.0

Lightweight Sidebar Manager

Brainstorm Force

Author

Brainstorm Force

4.2(21)
84/100
Last Updated
2026-08-24 (20d ago)
Active Installs
80,000+
Downloads
1,108,889
Requires WP
4.0+
Requires PHP
0+
Tested up to
WP 7.1
Created
2017-08-26 (9y ago)

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