Vulnerability CVE-2022-2436


Published: 2022-09-06

Description:
The Download Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted input via the 'file[package_dir]' parameter in versions up to, and including 3.2.49. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor privileges and above to call files using a PHAR wrapper that will deserialize the data 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.

Type:

CWE-502

(Deserialization of Untrusted Data)

 References:
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2761422%40download-manager%2Ftrunk%2Fsrc%2FAdmin%2FMenu%2FPackages.php&new=2761422%40download-manager%2Ftrunk%2Fsrc%2FAdmin%2FMenu%2FPackages.php
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/download-manager/trunk/src/Admin/Menu/Packages.php#L68
https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-2436

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