Medium severity6.1NVD Advisory· Published Mar 5, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2024-13779

Description

The Hero Mega Menu - Responsive WordPress Menu Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'index' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.16.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected products

WordPress/Hero Mega Menuinferred
Range: <=1.16.5
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/hero-mega-menu

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

codecanyon.net/item/hero-menu-responsive-wordpress-mega-menu-plugin/10324895nvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/18d37650-057d-4cd1-bfeb-e40885d22566nvd

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