# CVE-2022-2696: Restaurant Menu – Food Ordering System – Table Reservation <= 2.3.0 - Missing Authorization on AJAX Actions

> Authenticated attackers with minimal permissions can modify plugin settings and ordering preferences due to missing authorization checks in AJAX actions.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 3 Nov 2022
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-xjvc-8mfj-g22v

## What is CVE-2022-2696?

CVE-2022-2696 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in gloriafood Restaurant Menu – Food Ordering System – Table Reservation, published on 3 Nov 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-2696?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Oracle Restaurant Menu - Food Ordering System - Table Reservation.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-2696?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-2696 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-2696 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-2696 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in gloriafood Restaurant Menu – Food Ordering System – Table Reservation

- [CVE-2022-3776](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-3776/): Restaurant Menu – Food Ordering System – Table Reservation <= 2.3.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2023-32516](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-32516/): Cross-site scripting in Restaurant Menu – Food Ordering System – Table Reservation (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2024-9653](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9653/): Restaurant Menu – Food Ordering System – Table Reservation <= 2.4.2 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2022-4657](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-4657/): Restaurant Menu < 2.3.6 - Contributor+ Stored XSS via Shortcode (medium 5.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-2696 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-2696 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in gloriafood Restaurant Menu – Food Ordering System – Table Reservation, published on 3 Nov 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-2696 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: gloriafood Restaurant Menu – Food Ordering System – Table Reservation. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2696/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2696/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-2696
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2696
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-2696

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2696/
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