Otter - Gutenberg Blocks <= 2.2.5 - Authenticated (Author+) PHAR Deserialization

Deserialization of Untrusted Data
CVE CVE-2023-2288
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published May 2, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Alex Sanford
Description

The Otter - Gutenberg Blocks plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted input via the 'fallback' parameter in versions up to, and including 1.2.7. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with author 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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug otter-blocks (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.2.5
Patched Version
  • 2.2.6
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