CVE-2025-2871 (GCVE-0-2025-2871)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-12 03:21 – Updated: 2025-04-14 16:29
VLAI?
Summary
The WordPress Mega Menu – QuadMenu plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.0. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the ajax_dismiss_notice() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update any user meta to a value of one, including wp_capabilities which could result in a privilege deescalation of an administrator, via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
quadlayers WordPress Mega Menu – QuadMenu Affected: * , ≤ 3.2.0 (semver)
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Credits
Peter Thaleikis
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