Sydney Toolbox

Sydney Toolbox has 5 disclosed vulnerabilities in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2024; all 5 are fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 6.4, and the most serious one scores 6.4 out of 10. 2024 was the busiest year with 5 disclosures.

The most common weakness is Cross-Site Scripting, behind 5 of the records (100%).

Every one of the 5 issues recorded for Sydney Toolbox has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes all known holes.

4 independent researchers contributed these findings, most of them (2) reported by Ngô Thiên An (ancorn_). Sydney Toolbox is installed on roughly 50,000 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 6.7.7.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSMedium

6.4/ 10

Patch Coverage100%

Open

Fixed

Get automatic notifications for all Sydney Toolbox vulnerabilities before they are exploited.

Highest severity on recordCVSS 6.4CVE-2024-4473

Sydney Toolbox <= 1.31 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via aThemes: Portfolio Widget

Read the full analysis

Vulnerability Records

5 records


2024-05-13 23:40	Sydney Toolbox <= 1.31 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via aThemes: Portfolio Widget Sydney Toolbox <= 1.31	`CVE-2024-4473`	6.4 Medium	Ngô Thiên An (ancorn_)	Yes
2024-05-01 00:00	Sydney Toolbox <= 1.30 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting Sydney Toolbox <= 1.30	`CVE-2024-4036`	6.4 Medium	stealthcopter	Yes
2024-04-05 00:00	Sydney Toolbox <= 1.28 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Filterable Gallery Sydney Toolbox <= 1.28	`CVE-2024-3208`	6.4 Medium	wesley (wcraft)	Yes
2024-03-28 00:00	Sydney Toolbox <= 1.26 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via _id Sydney Toolbox <= 1.26	`CVE-2024-2936`	6.4 Medium	Ngô Thiên An (ancorn_)	Yes
2024-02-14 00:00	Sydney Toolbox <= 1.25 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting Sydney Toolbox <= 1.25	`CVE-2024-1447`	6.4 Medium	Webbernaut	Yes

Showing 1–5 of 5 reports

Plugin Profile

Latestv1.36

Sydney Toolbox

Author

Syed Balkhi

2.3(15)

46/100

Last Updated

2024-12-17 (2y ago)

Active Installs

50,000+

Downloads

2,531,309

Requires WP

4.0+

Requires PHP

Tested up to

WP 6.7.7

Created

2016-03-18 (11y ago)

The Sydney Toolbox plugin is meant to be used only with the Sydney WordPress theme. This plugin registers custom post types and custom fields that are needed in the Sydney theme

View on WordPress.org