Slider Responsive Slideshow – Image slider, Gallery slideshow <= 1.3.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) PHP Object Injection

Deserialization of Untrusted Data
CVE CVE-2024-1859
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published February 29, 2024
Last Updated March 1, 2024
Researcher Francesco Carlucci
Description

The Slider Responsive Slideshow – Image slider, Gallery slideshow plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.8 via deserialization of untrusted input to the awl_slider_responsive_shortcode function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access 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 slider-responsive-slideshow (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.3.8
Patched Version
  • 1.4.0
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