Abstract In this paper, we investigate the Hyers-Ulam-Rassias stability property of a quadratic functional equation. The even and odd cases for the corresponding function are treated separately before combining them into a single stability result. The study is undertaken in a relatively new structure of modular spaces. The theorems are deduced without using the familiar Δ2-property of that space. This complicated the proofs. In the proofs, a fixed point methodology is used for which a modular space version of Banach contraction mapping principle is utilized. Several corollaries and an illustrative example are provided.