Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering: A security weakness
Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering
- Plugin slug
food-and-drink-menu- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jun 05, 2024
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Jun 05, 2024 and is one of 5 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized creation of data due to a missing capability check on 'add_section', 'add_menu', 'add_menu_item', and 'add_menu_page' functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.16. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create menu sections, menus, food items, and new menu pages.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Primary and upstream sources
- NVD record for CVE-2024-5459
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
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- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- Wordfence advisory wordfence.com
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- Wordfence advisory wordfence.com