WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
RT Mega Menu < 1.5.2 - Subscriber+ Stored XSS via Menu Item CSS
Description
The plugin does not perform a capability check on the AJAX action that saves mega-menu configuration and per-menu-item settings; its only gate is a nonce that any logged-in user can read from a standard admin page. A subscriber-level user can therefore enable the mega menu on a site menu and store a menu-item style value that is rendered, without output escaping, into a style attribute on the public navigation. By breaking out of that attribute the user persists a JavaScript event handler that executes for every visitor who hovers the navigation, including administrators, leading to session/site takeover.
Proof of Concept
Affects Plugins
References
CVE
Classification
Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Shivamani Vastrala
Submitter
Shivamani Vastrala
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
Timeline
Publicly Published
2026-07-20 (about 13 days ago)
Added
2026-07-20 (about 12 days ago)
Last Updated
2026-07-31 (about 1 day ago)