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CVE-2022-2440 Deserialization of untrusted data

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The Theme Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted input via the 'images_array' parameter in versions up to, and including 2.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with administrative privileges to call files using a PHAR wrapper that will deserialize and call arbitrary PHP Objects that can be used to perform a variety of malicious actions granted a POP chain is also present. It also requires that the attacker is successful in uploading a file with the serialized payload.

CWE: CWE-502
CVSS v2-
CVSS v37.2
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/88fe46bf-8e85-4550-92ad-bdd426e5a745?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/theme-editor/trunk/ms_child_theme_editor.php
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3142694/
Affected Vendors

Basic Analysis

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Vulnerabilty type as detected by PRIOnengine

Deserialization of untrusted data

CVSS Scores as calculated by PRIOnengine
CVSS v26.5
AV:N/AC:L/AU:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS v37.2
AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Active Exploitation

Vulnerability is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. See the KEV Catalog

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Threat Actor Activity

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Compliance Impact

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Web Application Security Frameworks

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WASC-19 - SQL Injection