# CVE-2024-5431: File upload in WPCafe – Restaurant Menu, Online Food Ordering & Table Booking System

> Authenticated attackers with Contributor access can exploit a shortcode parameter to include remote files, potentially leading to code execution.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **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:** 25 Jun 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-888r-932r-wcrp

## What is CVE-2024-5431?

CVE-2024-5431 is a high-severity vulnerability in arraytics WPCafe – Restaurant Menu, Online Food Ordering & Table Booking System, published on 25 Jun 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 Local File Inclusion in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.25 via the reservation_extra_field shortcode parameter. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to include remote files on the server, potentially resulting in code execution

Weakness: CWE-98 (Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-5431?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Themewinter Wpcafe.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-5431?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-5431 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-5431 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-5431 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in arraytics WPCafe – Restaurant Menu, Online Food Ordering & Table Booking System

- [CVE-2024-37513](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-37513/): WordPress WPCafe plugin <= 2.2.27 - Local File Inclusion vulnerability (high 8.5)
- [CVE-2024-43135](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-43135/): WordPress WPCafe plugin <= 2.2.28 - Local File Inclusion vulnerability (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2024-5427](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5427/): Cross-site scripting in WPCafe – Restaurant Menu, Online Food Ordering & Table Booking System (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2023-47805](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-47805/): WordPress WPCafe plugin <= 2.2.22 - Broken Access Control vulnerability (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2024-1855](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1855/): WPCafe <= 2.2.23 - Unauthenticated Blind Server-Side Request Forgery (medium 5.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-5431 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-5431 is a high-severity vulnerability in arraytics WPCafe – Restaurant Menu, Online Food Ordering & Table Booking System, published on 25 Jun 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-5431 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: arraytics WPCafe – Restaurant Menu, Online Food Ordering & Table Booking System. 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-2024-5431/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5431/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-5431
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5431
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-5431

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5431/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.