CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-2871
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-04-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-352
Description
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.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quadmenu/tags/3.2.0/lib/class-admin.php#L105 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3270825/quadmenu/tags/3.2.1/lib/class-admin.php plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1ba7b675-54d6-4f0e-b60f-1c7fa6ff24ea?source=cve www.wordfence.com