Theme Editor, CVE-2022-2440

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2022-2440
Home page URL: Security reports for Theme Editor
Application: Theme Editor
Published on: Aug 29, 2024
Research Description: Theme Editor [theme-editor] < 2.9 CVE-2022-2440 [en] 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 versions: max 2.9.
Status: vulnerable