CVE-2024-32579: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

A Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in the GloriaFood Restaurant Menu – Food Ordering System – Table Reservation WordPress plugin, affecting versions up to 2.4.1. The vulnerability was reported by Ray Wilson on October 31, 2023, and was publicly disclosed on April 16, 2024, receiving the identifier CVE-2024-32579 (Patchstack).

The vulnerability is classified as an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (CWE-79) issue. It has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.5 (Medium) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L. The vulnerability requires Contributor-level privileges or higher to exploit (NVD, Patchstack).

This vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to inject malicious scripts, including redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website. These injected scripts would be executed when guests visit the affected site (Patchstack).

The vulnerability has been assessed as having a low severity impact and is considered unlikely to be exploited. It requires an authenticated user with at least Contributor-level privileges to execute the attack (Patchstack).

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 2.4.2 of the plugin. Users are advised to update to version 2.4.2 or later to remove the vulnerability. Patchstack users have the additional option to enable auto-update for vulnerable plugins (Patchstack).