CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-2440

7.2 HIGH Published 2024-08-29 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-08-29
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-502

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• themeeditor theme editor (< 2.9)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data weakness

References