CVE-2024-24838 WordPress Five Star Restaurant Reviews Plugin <= 2.3.5 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

What is CVE-2024-24838?

CVE-2024-24838 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Five Star Restaurant Reviews, published on 5 Feb 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Five Star Plugins Five Star Restaurant Reviews allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Five Star Restaurant Reviews: from n/a through 2.3.5.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-24838?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fivestarplugins Five Star Restaurant Menu.

How do I fix CVE-2024-24838?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-24838 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2024-24838 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-24838 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Five Star Restaurant Reviews

• CVE-2023-5340 Five Star Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering < 2.4.11 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-29045 Deserialization in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-34017 WordPress Five Star Restaurant Reservations Plugin <= 2.6.7 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) High 7.1
• CVE-2024-5459 Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering <= 2.4.16 - Missing Authorization to Menu Creation Medium 4.3
• CVE-2023-37985 WordPress Five Star Restaurant Menu Plugin <= 2.4.6 is vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Medium 4.3

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-w6f5-cfrr-rg5r.