WordPress Mega Menu – QuadMenu <= 3.2.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Limited User Meta Update

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2025-2871
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published April 11, 2025
Last Updated April 12, 2025
Researcher Peter Thaleikis
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug quadmenu (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.2.0
Patched Version
  • 3.2.1
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