CVE-2023-5340: The Five Star Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering WordPress plugin before 2.4.11 unserializes user input via an AJAX action available to unauthenticated users, allowing them to perform PHP Object Inject

critical Affects five-star-restaurant-menu (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published 2023-11-20; advisory modified 2026-06-17.

The Five Star Restaurant Menu and Food Ordering WordPress plugin before 2.4.11 unserializes user input via an AJAX action available to unauthenticated users, allowing them to perform PHP Object Inject

Package: five-star-restaurant-menu (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions: <2.4.11
Fixed in: 2.4.11
Severity: critical CVSS 9.8
Exploitation: not on CISA KEV · EPSS 1% (69.2th percentile)
Published: 2023-11-20
Source: nvd

References

CWE-74

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