WP Editor, CVE-2022-2446

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2022-2446
Home page URL: Security reports for WP Editor
Application: WP Editor
Published on: Sep 13, 2024
Research Description: The WP Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted input via the 'current_theme_root' parameter in versions up to, and including 1.2.9. 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: Min -, max 1.2.9.1.
Status: vulnerable