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CVE-2025-8152: WP CTA – Call To Action Plugin, Sticky CTA, Sticky Buttons <= 1.7.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Sticky Status Update

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-08-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

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.

Affected products

• blendmedia WP CTA – Call Now Button, Sticky Button & Call to Action Builder: through 1.7.0

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easy-sticky-sidebar/trunk/inc/ClassActions.php#L29
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easy-sticky-sidebar/trunk/inc/ClassActions.php#L52
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3336867%40easy-sticky-sidebar&new=3336867%40easy-sticky-sidebar&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/981ed50b-8f03-4320-99f0-3f53f7b2fc44?source=cve

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