Vulnerability CVE-2022-2438


Published: 2022-09-06

Description:
The Broken Link Checker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted input via the '$log_file' value in versions up to, and including 1.11.16. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with administrative 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/2757773/broken-link-checker/trunk/core/core.php?old=2605914&old_path=broken-link-checker%2Ftrunk%2Fcore%2Fcore.php
https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-2438

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