# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **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:** 5 Jun 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-q9gh-wgf2-5fp3

## 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 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-5459?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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.

## 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](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-2024-24838](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-24838/): WordPress Five Star Restaurant Reviews Plugin <= 2.3.5 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) (medium 6.5)
- [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-2024-5459 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-5459 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: rustaurius Five Star Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering. 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-2024-5459/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5459/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-5459
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5459
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-5459

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5459/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.