WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

WP CTA – Call To Action Plugin, Sticky CTA, Sticky Buttons < 1.7.1 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Sticky Status Update

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.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 1.7.1

References

Classification

Type
NO AUTHORISATION
CWE

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Sushi Com Abacate
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2025-08-01 (about 1 year ago)
Added
2025-08-01 (about 1 year ago)
Last Updated
2025-08-02 (about 1 year ago)

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