Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 5, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2024-13780

Description

The Hero Mega Menu - Responsive WordPress Menu Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file deletion due to insufficient file path validation in the hmenu_delete_menu() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.16.5. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary directories on the server.

Affected products

WordPress/Hero Mega Menuinferred2 versions
<=1.16.5+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <=1.16.5
- (no CPE)range: <=1.16.5
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/hero-mega-menu

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

codecanyon.net/item/hero-menu-responsive-wordpress-mega-menu-plugin/10324895nvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/17872fe4-b566-44ca-8218-3677fb75cb1cnvd

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