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WordPress Mega Menu – QuadMenu, CVE-2025-2871

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2025-2871

Published on
Apr 12, 2025
Research 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.
Affected versions
Min -, max 3.2.1.
Status
vulnerable