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Is Mobile Menu safe?

Need some help with the mobile website experience? Need an Mobile Menu plugin that keep your mobile visitors engaged?

What this plugin does

  • Slug: mobile-menu
  • Author: Rui Guerreiro
  • 70000+ active installs
  • 94/100 rating (256 reviews on wordpress.org)
  • 2308659 all-time downloads
  • On WordPress.org since 2014-02-03

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Maintenance status

  • Last updated: 2025-06-23 6:57am GMT
  • Tested up to WordPress: 6.8.6
  • Requires PHP: 5.6+

Known vulnerabilities

6 known CVEs on file for Mobile Menu. Reported between 2019 and 2026.

CVE Vulnerability Type Severity Affected Fixed in Published Status
CVE-2024-13362 WP Mobile Menu – The Mobile-Friendly Responsive Menu [mobile-menu] < 2.8.7 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Medium 6.1 < 2.8.7 2.8.7 2026-04-30
CVE-2024-2508 WP Mobile Menu – The Mobile-Friendly Responsive Menu [mobile-menu] < 2.8.5 Missing Authorization Medium 5.3 < 2.8.5 2.8.5 2024-07-30
CVE-2024-37274 WP Mobile Menu – The Mobile-Friendly Responsive Menu [mobile-menu] < 2.8.4.4 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Medium 4.3 < 2.8.4.4 2.8.4.4 2024-06-27
CVE-2024-3987 WP Mobile Menu – The Mobile-Friendly Responsive Menu [mobile-menu] < 2.8.4.3 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Medium 5.4 < 2.8.4.3 2.8.4.3 2024-06-06
CVE-2023-33999 WP Mobile Menu – The Mobile-Friendly Responsive Menu [mobile-menu] < 2.8.4 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') High 7.1 < 2.8.4 2.8.4 2023-07-18
WP Mobile Menu – The Mobile-Friendly Responsive Menu [mobile-menu] < 2.8.2.7 Missing Authorization Medium 6.3 < 2.8.2.7 2.8.2.7 2022-03-04
WP Mobile Menu – The Mobile-Friendly Responsive Menu [mobile-menu] < 2.8.2.7 Unknown < 2.8.2.7 2.8.2.7 2022-02-28
WP Mobile Menu – The Mobile-Friendly Responsive Menu [mobile-menu] < 2.8.2.7 Unknown < 2.8.2.7 2.8.2.7 2022-02-28

CVE-2024-13362

Multiple plugins and/or themes for WordPress are vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the url parameter in various versions 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.

Source: CVE.org

CVE-2024-2508

The WP Mobile Menu plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the save_menu_item_icon function in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.4.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to add the '_mobmenu_icon' post meta to arbitrary posts with an arbitrary (but sanitized) value. NOTE: Version 2.8.4.4 contains a partial fix for this vulnerability.

Source: CVE.org

CVE-2024-37274

The WP Mobile Menu plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.8.4.3. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the mobile_menu_import_settings() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to import settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Source: Wordfence

CVE-2024-3987

The WP Mobile Menu – The Mobile-Friendly Responsive Menu plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via image alt text in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.4.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Source: CVE.org

CVE-2023-33999

Update the plugin to the latest version. Rafie Muhammad (Patchstack) discovered and reported this Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress WP Mobile Menu Plugin. This could allow a malicious actor to inject malicious scripts, such as redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into your website which will be executed when guests visit your site. This vulnerability has been fixed in version 2.8.4.

Source: Patchstack

WP Mobile Menu – The Mobile-Friendly Responsive Menu [mobile-menu] < 2.8.2.7

The Freemius SDK, as used by hundreds of WordPress plugin and theme developers, was vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery and Information disclosure due to missing capability checks and nonce protection on the _get_debug_log, _get_db_option, and the _set_db_option functions in versions up to, and including 2.4.2. Any WordPress plugin or theme running a version of Freemius less than 2.4.3 is vulnerable.

Source: Wordfence

WP Mobile Menu – The Mobile-Friendly Responsive Menu [mobile-menu] < 2.8.2.7

Toggle The Debug Mode via Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability discovered in WordPress WP Mobile Menu plugin (versions <= 2.8.2.6).

Source: Patchstack

WP Mobile Menu – The Mobile-Friendly Responsive Menu [mobile-menu] < 2.8.2.7

Sensitive Information Disclosure vulnerability discovered in WordPress WP Mobile Menu plugin (versions <= 2.8.2.6).

Source: Patchstack

+ 5 more known vulnerabilities
CVE Vulnerability Type Severity Affected Fixed in Published Status
CVE-2021-24435 WP Mobile Menu – The Mobile-Friendly Responsive Menu [mobile-menu] < 2.8.2.3 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Medium 6.1 < 2.8.2.3 2.8.2.3 2021-08-09
WP Mobile Menu – The Mobile-Friendly Responsive Menu [mobile-menu] < 2.8.2.3 Unknown < 2.8.2.3 2.8.2.3 2021-08-09
WP Mobile Menu – The Mobile-Friendly Responsive Menu [mobile-menu] < 2.7.3 Unknown < 2.7.3 2.7.3 2019-03-02
WP Mobile Menu – The Mobile-Friendly Responsive Menu [mobile-menu] < 2.7.3 Unknown < 2.7.3 2.7.3 2019-02-25
WP Mobile Menu – The Mobile-Friendly Responsive Menu [mobile-menu] < 2.7.3 Unknown < 2.7.3 2.7.3

CVE-2021-24435

The iframe-font-preview.php file of the titan-framework does not properly escape the font-weight and font-family GET parameters before outputting them back in an href attribute, leading to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issues

Source: WPScan

WP Mobile Menu – The Mobile-Friendly Responsive Menu [mobile-menu] < 2.8.2.3

Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability discovered by iohex and WPScanTeam in WordPress WP Mobile Menu plugin (versions <= 2.8.2.2).

Source: Patchstack

WP Mobile Menu – The Mobile-Friendly Responsive Menu [mobile-menu] < 2.7.3

Authenticated Option Update vulnerability (Fremius Library security issue) found in WordPress WP Mobile Menu plugin (versions <=2.7.2).

Source: Patchstack

WP Mobile Menu – The Mobile-Friendly Responsive Menu [mobile-menu] < 2.7.3

The Freemius SDK for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to a missing capability check on the _get_db_option and _set_db_option functions in versions up to, and including, 2.2.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to change site settings and potentially take over the site.

Source: Wordfence

WP Mobile Menu – The Mobile-Friendly Responsive Menu [mobile-menu] < 2.7.3

The library, used in numerous plugins, does not have proper authorisation when updating blog options, allowing any authenticated users, such as subscriber to update arbitrary options

Source: WPScan

How to fix it

Update this plugin to the latest release from wordpress.org — each CVE above lists the exact release that fixed it ("Fixed in") when one is on file.

This is the plugin's full known vulnerability history, not a scan of any specific installation — run a free scan of your own site to check your exact installed version.

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