Advance Menu Manager <= 3.0.6 - Missing Authorization
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 3.0.7
- Affected Plugin
- Advanced Menu Manager Pro – Built for Content-heavy WordPress Sites to Add, Filter, Lock, and Edit Menus Easily
- Affected Version
<= 3.0.6- CVSS
- 4.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
- CVE
CVE pending
At a glance
This record tracks a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Advanced Menu Manager Pro WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.0.6. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). The root cause is a missing authorization check on a reachable function. The issue is fixed in version 3.0.7; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed November 2023.
Vulnerability Overview
The Advance Menu Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to missing capability checks on the dsamm_action_ajax_for_delete_menu(), dsamm_amm_duplicate_menu(), and dsamm_action_ajax_for_create_menu() functions in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.6. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to delete, create, and duplicate menus. Please note version 3.0.7 did not introduce capability checks, however, it introduced nonce checks that prevent the missing authorization issue from being exploitable.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user.
CWE-862: Missing Authorization
Advanced Menu Manager Pro <= 3.0.6 carries this weakness at dsamm_action_ajax_for_delete_menu(), and reaching it takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.
Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For Advanced Menu Manager Pro the fix is 3.0.7: builds <= 3.0.6 are affected, anything from 3.0.7 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 3.0.7, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Advanced Menu Manager Pro 3.0.7 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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