CVE-2024-5427 Cross-site scripting in WPCafe – Restaurant Menu, Online Food Ordering & Table Booking System

Medium 6.4 Published 31 May 2024 Updated 8 Apr 2026

Authenticated attackers can inject arbitrary scripts via the Reservation Form shortcode, executing them when users view the page.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2024-5427?

CVE-2024-5427 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in arraytics WPCafe – Restaurant Menu, Online Food Ordering & Table Booking System, published on 31 May 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The WPCafe – Online Food Ordering, Restaurant Menu, Delivery, and Reservations for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's Reservation Form shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.24 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-5427?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Themewinter Wpcafe.

How do I fix CVE-2024-5427?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-5427 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-2024-5427 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-5427 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-qfp7-gc56-5hcj.