Side Menu LiteWordPress extension · Wow Company
CVE-2023-27418
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedCross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Wow-Company Side Menu Lite – add sticky fixed buttons plugin <= 4.0 versions.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceCross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Wow-Company Side Menu Lite WordPress plugin (versions 4.0 and below). The plugin lacks proper nonce validation on state-changing actions, allowing attackers to trick authenticated administrators into performing unintended operations like modifying plugin settings or menu configurations.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
Side Menu LiteWordPress extension
<= 4.0CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Verify the plugin is installedCheck your WordPress plugins directory (wp-content/plugins/) for a folder containing 'side-menu' or 'wow-company' in the name, or look for 'Side Menu Lite' in the WordPress admin plugins list.Affected if The plugin folder exists in the plugins directory or appears in the WordPress admin plugin list.
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Identify the installed versionOpen the main plugin PHP file (usually side-menu-lite.php or similar in the plugin folder) and look for the 'Version:' header in the plugin comment block at the top of the file. Alternatively, check the readme.txt file in the plugin folder for the 'Stable tag' entry.Affected if The version listed is 4.0 or below.
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Confirm WordPress admin accessDetermine if any administrator-level user accounts exist on the WordPress site. CSRF attacks require a logged-in administrator to be tricked into clicking a malicious link.Affected if Administrator users exist and can access the WordPress admin dashboard.
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Inspect form actions for nonce fieldsAccess the Side Menu Lite plugin settings pages in the WordPress admin (usually under the plugin's menu). View the page source or inspect form elements to check if form submissions include a nonce field (typically named '_wpnonce' or similar).Affected if State-changing forms (settings, menu configuration) lack nonce verification fields.
You are affected if the Side Menu Lite plugin version 4.0 or below is installed and actively handling administrative settings or menu configurations without CSRF protection.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpdate the Side Menu Lite plugin to the latest version (above 4.0) which includes proper anti-CSRF token validation, or implement nonce verification on all form submissions and AJAX actions within the plugin.
Fix this in Side Menu Lite
Scoped from the published advisory
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- Implementation2.0 h
- Testing2.0 h
- Review / QA1.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
Primary sourcesPractitioner notes
ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2023-27418 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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