Known vulnerabilities in Lightweight Sidebar Manager

Create new sidebar areas and display them conditionally on certain pages. Works with all themes.

1Reported vulnerabilities

4.3Highest CVSS score

2.0.0Latest version

80,000+Active installs

What to do now

Update Lightweight Sidebar Manager to 1.1.5 or later. 1 of these have a fixed version available. Updating resolves them.

Plugin last updated: August 24, 2026 / Tested up to WordPress: 7.1.2 / 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-2020-36747	Medium 4.3	0.5%	1.1.4 and earlier	`1.1.5`	July 1, 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.