What is CVE-2024-13778?

CVE-2024-13778 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Heroplugins Hero Mega Menu - Responsive WordPress Plugin, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-03-05.

How severe is CVE-2024-13778?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-13778 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

SQL Injection in Heroplugins Hero Mega Menu - Responsive WordPress Plugin

CVE-2024-13778

The Hero Mega Menu - Responsive WordPress Menu Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via several functions in all versions up to, and including, 1.16.5 due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied parameter and lack of sufficient preparation on the existing SQL query. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to append additional SQL queries into already existing queries that can be used to extract sensitive information from the database.

Vulnerability class: SQL Injection

EPSS: 0.003 (25.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Heroplugins Hero Mega Menu - Responsive Wordpress Plugin — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-89 — SQL Injection

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-13778?: CVE-2024-13778 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Heroplugins Hero Mega Menu - Responsive WordPress Plugin, classified under SQL Injection. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-03-05.
How severe is CVE-2024-13778?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-13778 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.