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CVE-2024-3238: WordPress Menu Plugin — Superfly Responsive Menu <= 5.0.29 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary File Deletion

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-08-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The WordPress Menu Plugin — Superfly Responsive Menu plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.29. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the ajax_handle_delete_icons() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary files via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link. Please not the CSRF was patched in 5.0.28, however, adequate directory traversal protection wasn't introduced until 5.0.30.

Affected products

• looks_awesome Superfly Responsive Menu: through 5.0.29

References

• https://codecanyon.net/item/superfly-responsive-wordpress-menu-plugin/8012790
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3608fce3-0869-4516-ae08-68108f733c37?source=cve

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