WP Menu Image <= 2.2 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Menu Image Deletion

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-52485
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published December 16, 2024
Last Updated January 17, 2025
Researcher Marek Mikita
Description

The WP Menu Image plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'wmi_delete_img_menu' function in all versions up to, and including, 2.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete images from menus.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-menu-image (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.2
Patched Version
  • 2.3
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