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WordPress <= 5.0 - PHP Object Injection via Meta Data

Description

According to WordPress:

"Sam Thomas discovered that contributors could craft meta data in a way that resulted in PHP object injection."

Affects WordPress

3.8.1
Fixed in version 3.8.28
3.8
Fixed in version 3.8.28
3.7.1
Fixed in version 3.7.28
3.9
Fixed in version 3.9.26
3.9.1
Fixed in version 3.9.26
3.7
Fixed in version 3.7.28
3.8.2
Fixed in version 3.8.28
3.8.3
Fixed in version 3.8.28
3.9.2
Fixed in version 3.9.26
4.0
Fixed in version 4.0.25

References

CVE
CVE-2018-20148
URL
https://wordpress.org/news/2018/12/wordpress-5-0-1-security-release/

Classification

Type

OBJECT INJECTION

OWASP top 10
A8: Insecure Deserialization
CWE
CWE-502

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Sam Thomas

Submitter

Ryan Dewhurst

Submitter twitter
ethicalhack3r
Verified

No

WPVDB ID
046ff6a0-90b2-4251-98fc-b7fba93f8334

Timeline

Publicly Published

2018-12-13 (about 4 years ago)

Added

2018-12-13 (about 4 years ago)

Last Updated

2020-09-22 (about 2 years ago)

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