CVE-2023-4971

The Weaver Xtreme Theme Support WordPress plugin before 6.3.1 unserialises the content of an imported file, which could lead to PHP object injections issues when a high privilege user import a malicious file and a suitable gadget chain is present on the blog.

Weakness

The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently ensuring that the resulting data will be valid.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Make fields transient to protect them from deserialization.
• An attempt to serialize and then deserialize a class containing transient fields will result in NULLs where the transient data should be. This is an excellent way to prevent time, environment-based, or sensitive variables from being carried over and used improperly.

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/586.html

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/421194e1-6c3f-4972-8f3c-de1b9d2bcb13
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/421194e1-6c3f-4972-8f3c-de1b9d2bcb13