Category Order and Taxonomy Terms Order <= 1.5.2.2 - Authenticated PHP Object Injection

Deserialization of Untrusted Data
CVE Not available
CVSS High (8.5)
Publicly Published February 22, 2018
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Description

The Category Order and Taxonomy Terms Order plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in versions up to, and including, 1.5.2.2 via deserialization of untrusted input from the 'order' parameter. This allows authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to inject a PHP Object. No known POP chain is present in the vulnerable plugin. If a POP chain is present via an additional plugin or theme installed on the target system, it could allow the attacker to delete arbitrary files, retrieve sensitive data, or execute code.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug taxonomy-terms-order (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.5.3
Patched Version
  • 1.5.3
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