CVE-2024-5459 Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering <= 2.4.16 - Missing Authorization to Menu Creation
Authenticated subscribers can create unauthorized menu sections, menus, and food items due to missing capability checks in the plugin.
- 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-2024-5459?
CVE-2024-5459 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in rustaurius Five Star Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering, published on 5 Jun 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized creation of data due to a missing capability check on 'add_section', 'add_menu', 'add_menu_item', and 'add_menu_page' functions in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.16. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to create menu sections, menus, food items, and new menu pages.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-5459?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Fivestarplugins Five Star Restaurant Menu.
How do I fix CVE-2024-5459?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-5459 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2024-5459 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-5459 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in rustaurius Five Star Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering
- CVE-2023-5340 Five Star Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering < 2.4.11 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection
- CVE-2020-29045 Deserialization in n/a
- CVE-2023-34017 WordPress Five Star Restaurant Reservations Plugin <= 2.6.7 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
- CVE-2024-24838 WordPress Five Star Restaurant Reviews Plugin <= 2.3.5 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
- CVE-2023-37985 WordPress Five Star Restaurant Menu Plugin <= 2.4.6 is vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Sources
Also known as GHSA-q9gh-wgf2-5fp3.