CVE-2022-2440

CVSS V2 None CVSS V3 None

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.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2022-2440

Assigner
Wordfence

Vulnerability Status
PUBLISHED

Published Version
2024-08-29T03:30:46.255Z

Last Modified Date
2024-08-29T03:30:46.255Z

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-502	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/502.html

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
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#L495
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3142694/

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2440
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-2440

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2024-08-29 12:04:12				Added to TrackCVE