Known vulnerabilities in Side Menu Lite – Sticky Floating Side Menu

Create a sticky vertical sidebar menu that enhances navigation and highlights important links on your website.

5Reported vulnerabilities

8.8Highest CVSS score

5.5.3Latest version

7,000+Active installs

What to do now

Update Side Menu Lite – Sticky Floating Side Menu to 5.3.2 or later. 5 of these have a fixed version available. Updating resolves them.

Plugin last updated: May 20, 2026 / Tested up to WordPress: 7.0.4 / View on wordpress.org

Reported vulnerabilities

Ordered by how urgently they need attention — whether a vulnerability is actually being exploited, and how likely exploitation is, rather than CVSS severity alone.

CVE	Severity	Exploit probability next 30 days	Affected versions	Fixed in	Published
CVE-2024-3476	High 8.8	0.4%	Before 4.2.1	`4.2.1`	May 2, 2024
CVE-2021-24580	High 8.8	1.4%	Before 2.2.6	`2.2.6`	July 27, 2021
CVE-2021-24521	High 7.2	1.6%	2.1.1 and earlier	`2.2.1`	June 28, 2021
CVE-2025-24724	Medium 4.3	0.2%	5.3.1 and earlier	`5.3.2`	January 24, 2025
CVE-2023-27418	Medium 4.3	0.3%	4.0 and earlier	`4.0.1`	March 8, 2023

Sources: vulnerability records from NVD, exploitation from CISA KEV, exploit probability from EPSS. Affected versions come from CPE ranges or from the reporting CNA.