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CVE-2024-5459:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering plugin for WordPress contains a missing authorization vulnerability (CVE-2024-5459) affecting all versions up to and including 2.4.16. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed in June 2024, impacting the WordPress plugin's menu creation functionality (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability stems from missing capability checks on multiple critical functions including 'addsection', 'addmenu', 'addmenuitem', and 'addmenupage'. The severity is rated as MEDIUM with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.3 (Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N). The vulnerability is classified under CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) (NVD).
Impact
This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access or higher to create unauthorized menu sections, menus, food items, and new menu pages. This could lead to unauthorized modification of restaurant menu data and potentially affect the integrity of the menu system (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
Website administrators should update to version 2.4.17 or later of the Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering plugin which contains the fix for this vulnerability (NVD).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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