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

> Attackers can inject malicious scripts into the Five Star Restaurant Reviews plugin, potentially compromising user sessions and site integrity.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/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:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 5 Feb 2024
- **Updated:** 28 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-w6f5-cfrr-rg5r

## 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 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-24838?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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.

## 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](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5340/): Five Star Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering < 2.4.11 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2020-29045](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-29045/): Deserialization in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2023-34017](https://insights.sbomify.com/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](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5459/): Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering <= 2.4.16 - Missing Authorization to Menu Creation (medium 4.3)
- [CVE-2023-37985](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-37985/): WordPress Five Star Restaurant Menu Plugin <= 2.4.6 is vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-24838 and fix it if it is affected.

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

Affected product: Five Star Restaurant Reviews. 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-2024-24838/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-24838/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-24838
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-24838
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-24838

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-24838/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.