Restaurant Menu – Food Ordering System – Table Reservation: A security weakness
Restaurant Menu – Food Ordering System – Table Reservation is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires an authenticated WordPress account. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Restaurant Menu – Food Ordering System – Table Reservation
- Plugin slug
menu-ordering-reservations- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Nov 03, 2022
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Nov 03, 2022 and is one of 3 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Restaurant Menu – Food Ordering System – Table Reservation 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 – Food Ordering System – Table Reservation plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass via several AJAX actions in versions up to, and including 2.3.0 due to missing capability checks and missing nonce validation. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with minimal permissions to perform a wide variety of actions such as modifying the plugin's settings and modifying the ordering system preferences.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Primary and upstream sources
- NVD record for CVE-2022-2696
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- Wordfence advisory wordfence.com
- Wordfence advisory wordfence.com
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- WordPress upstream reference plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- Wordfence advisory wordfence.com