CVE-2024-51631
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 Md Eftakhairul Islam Sticky Social Bar sticky-social-bar allows Cross Site Request Forgery.This issue affects Sticky Social Bar: from n/a through <= 2.0.
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 · high confidenceCross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Sticky Social Bar WordPress plugin (versions <= 2.0) allows attackers to trick authenticated administrators into performing unintended actions, such as modifying plugin settings, by luring them to visit malicious pages while logged in.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
CVSS 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
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
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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Confirm Sticky Social Bar plugin is installedIn WordPress admin, go to Plugins > Installed Plugins and search for 'Sticky Social Bar'. Check if it appears in the list of active or inactive plugins.Affected if The plugin is present in the WordPress installation
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Identify installed plugin versionClick on the plugin name in the plugins list to view its details, or check the plugin header in /wp-content/plugins/sticky-social-bar/ directory for the Version field.Affected if Version is 2.0 or lower, or version information is unavailable (which may indicate an unpatched release)
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Locate plugin admin settings pageAccess the WordPress admin dashboard and look for a Sticky Social Bar settings menu item (typically under Settings or its own top-level menu). Navigate to the plugin configuration page.Affected if The plugin has an accessible settings or configuration page in the admin area
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Inspect settings form for nonce fieldsRight-click the plugin settings page, select 'View Page Source', and search for 'wpnonce', '_wp_nonce', or 'nonce' within the <form> HTML tags. Alternatively, use browser developer tools to inspect form input fields.Affected if No nonce field (wpnonce, _wp_nonce, or similar) is found within the plugin's settings form HTML
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Check for SameSite cookie attributesIn browser developer tools, go to the Application tab > Cookies while on the plugin settings page. Inspect the WordPress authentication cookie and verify if SameSite attribute is set to 'Strict' or 'Lax'.Affected if SameSite attribute is missing, set to 'None', or not configured on the session cookie
If the Sticky Social Bar plugin is installed at version 2.0 or below and its admin settings forms lack nonce validation, the environment is vulnerable to CVE-2024-51631.
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 dataImplement anti-CSRF tokens (nonces) on all forms and AJAX actions, validate nonce tokens server-side, and configure SameSite cookie attributes to prevent cross-origin requests.
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- 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.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2024-51631 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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