# CVE-2024-8434: Missing authorization in Easy Mega Menu for WordPress – ThemeHunk

> Authenticated subscribers can modify plugin settings due to missing capability checks in AJAX functions.

- **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:** 25 Sep 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-564c-h2vx-x449

## What is CVE-2024-8434?

CVE-2024-8434 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Easy Mega Menu for WordPress – ThemeHunk, published on 25 Sep 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Easy Mega Menu Plugin for WordPress – ThemeHunk plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on several functions hooked via AJAX in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.9. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to perform actions like updating plugin settings.

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-8434?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Themehunk Mega Menu.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-8434?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-8434 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-8434 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8434 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Easy Mega Menu for WordPress – ThemeHunk

- [CVE-2025-30990](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-30990/): WordPress ThemeHunk plugin <= 1.2.0 - Broken Access Control vulnerability (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-8434 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-8434 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Easy Mega Menu for WordPress – ThemeHunk, published on 25 Sep 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-2024-8434 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Easy Mega Menu for WordPress – ThemeHunk. 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-2024-8434/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8434/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8434
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8434
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-8434

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8434/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.