Sticky Social Buttons – Floating Chat, Call, Contact, SMS, Email & 50+ Social Icons Security & Risk Analysis

Grow your audience on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and more, while engaging customers instantly through WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, Viber, and doz …

100 active installs v1.0.4 PHP 5.4+ WP 5.0+ Updated Sep 20, 2025

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A · Safe

CVEs total0

Unpatched0

Last CVENever

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Safety Verdict

Is Sticky Social Buttons – Floating Chat, Call, Contact, SMS, Email & 50+ Social Icons Safe to Use in 2026?

Generally Safe

Score 100/100

Sticky Social Buttons – Floating Chat, Call, Contact, SMS, Email & 50+ Social Icons has no known CVEs and is actively maintained. It's a solid choice for most WordPress installations.

No known CVEs Updated 8mo ago

Risk Assessment

The gp-sticky-buttons plugin v1.0.4 exhibits a generally good security posture with several positive indicators. The absence of SQL injection vulnerabilities due to the exclusive use of prepared statements is a significant strength. Furthermore, the plugin demonstrates robust output escaping practices, with a high percentage of outputs being properly sanitized, and a lack of dangerous functions, file operations, or external HTTP requests, all contributing to a reduced attack surface in these areas. The presence of nonces on all AJAX handlers is also a positive security control. However, there is one critical area of concern: one out of five AJAX handlers lacks authentication checks. This means that an attacker could potentially trigger this handler without being logged in, which could lead to unintended actions or information disclosure depending on the handler's functionality.

Key Concerns

AJAX handler without authentication check

Vulnerabilities

None known

Sticky Social Buttons – Floating Chat, Call, Contact, SMS, Email & 50+ Social Icons Security Vulnerabilities

No known vulnerabilities — this is a good sign.

Version History

Sticky Social Buttons – Floating Chat, Call, Contact, SMS, Email & 50+ Social Icons Release Timeline

v1.0.4Current

v1.0.3

v1.0.2

v1.0.1

Code Analysis

Analyzed Mar 16, 2026

Sticky Social Buttons – Floating Chat, Call, Contact, SMS, Email & 50+ Social Icons Code Analysis

Dangerous Functions

Raw SQL Queries

0 prepared

Unescaped Output

321 escaped

Nonce Checks

Capability Checks

File Operations

External Requests

Bundled Libraries

Output Escaping

83% escaped387 total outputs

Data Flows · Security

All sanitized

Data Flow Analysis

1 flows

<widgets> (templates\widgets.php:0)

Source (user input) Sink (dangerous op) Sanitizer Transform Unsanitized Sanitized

Attack Surface

1 unprotected

Sticky Social Buttons – Floating Chat, Call, Contact, SMS, Email & 50+ Social Icons Attack Surface

Entry Points5

Unprotected1

AJAX Handlers 5

authwp_ajax_gp_sticky_buttons_add_channelincludes\Actions.php:8

authwp_ajax_gsb_save_widget_settingsincludes\Actions.php:9

authwp_ajax_gp_sticky_buttons_change_statusincludes\Actions.php:10

authwp_ajax_gp_sticky_buttons_remove_widgetincludes\Actions.php:11

authwp_ajax_gp_sticky_buttons_clone_widgetincludes\Actions.php:12

WordPress Hooks 11

actioninitincludes\Actions.php:7

actionadmin_initincludes\Actions.php:13

actionadmin_enqueue_scriptsincludes\Assets.php:8

actionadmin_enqueue_scriptsincludes\Assets.php:9

actiongsb_channel_field_labelincludes\Fields.php:8

actiongsb_channel_field_inputincludes\Fields.php:9

actiongsb_display_rules_labelincludes\Fields.php:10

actiongsb_display_rules_inputincludes\Fields.php:11

actionwp_enqueue_scriptsincludes\Init.php:15

actionadmin_menuincludes\Menu.php:9

actionplugins_loadedindex.php:54

Maintenance & Trust

Sticky Social Buttons – Floating Chat, Call, Contact, SMS, Email & 50+ Social Icons Maintenance & Trust

Maintenance Signals

WordPress version tested6.6.5

Last updatedSep 20, 2025

PHP min version5.4

Downloads4K

Community Trust

Rating0/100

Number of ratings0

Active installs100

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Developer Profile

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trust score

Avg Security Score

90/100

Avg Patch Time

28 days

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Detection Fingerprints

How We Detect Sticky Social Buttons – Floating Chat, Call, Contact, SMS, Email & 50+ Social Icons

Patterns used to identify this plugin on WordPress sites during automated security audits and web crawling.

Asset Fingerprints

Asset Paths

/wp-content/plugins/gp-sticky-buttons/dist/admin/css/app.css/wp-content/plugins/gp-sticky-buttons/dist/admin/css/upgrade-to-pro.css/wp-content/plugins/gp-sticky-buttons/dist/admin/js/jquery.ajaxsubmit.js/wp-content/plugins/gp-sticky-buttons/dist/admin/js/app.js/wp-content/plugins/gp-sticky-buttons/dist/admin/js/upgrade-to-pro.js/wp-content/plugins/gp-sticky-buttons/dist/front/css/style.css/wp-content/plugins/gp-sticky-buttons/dist/front/js/script.js

Script Paths

dist/admin/js/jquery.ajaxsubmit.jsdist/admin/js/app.jsdist/admin/js/upgrade-to-pro.jsdist/front/js/script.js

Version Parameters

gp-sticky-buttons/dist/admin/css/app.css?time=gp-sticky-buttons/dist/admin/css/upgrade-to-pro.css?time=gp-sticky-buttons/dist/front/css/style.cssgp-sticky-buttons/dist/front/js/script.js

HTML / DOM Fingerprints

CSS Classes

gp-sticky-buttons-admin-wrapgp-sticky-buttons-settings-wrapgp-sticky-buttons-main-wrapgp-sticky-buttons-content-wrapgp-sticky-buttons-icon

Data Attributes

data-gp-sticky-buttons-iddata-gp-sticky-buttons-settings

JS Globals

gp_st_btn_settings

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