Advanced Database Cleaner <= 3.1.3 - Authenticated(Administrator+) PHP Object Injection via process_bulk_action

6.6
Deserialization of Untrusted Data
CVE CVE-2024-0668
CVSS 6.6 (Medium)
Publicly Published January 24, 2024
Last Updated February 5, 2024
Researcher Richard Telleng (stueotue)

Description

The Advanced Database Cleaner plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.3 via deserialization of untrusted input in the 'process_bulk_action' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attacker, with administrator access and above, to inject a PHP Object. No 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.

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Vulnerability Details for Advanced Database Cleaner – Optimize & Clean Database to Speed Up Site Performance

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug advanced-database-cleaner (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 3.1.4, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 3.1.3
Patched Version
  • 3.1.4

Recent vulnerabilities in Advanced Database Cleaner – Optimize & Clean Database to Speed Up Site Performance

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Advanced Database Cleaner <= 3.1.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery CVE-2025-64357 4.3 Bao - BlueRock October 30, 2025
2 Advanced Database Cleaner <= 3.1.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Manipulation CVE-2025-11497 4.3 Bao - BlueRock October 24, 2025
3 Advanced Database Cleaner <= 3.1.2 - Authenticated (Administrator+) SQL Injection CVE-2023-49764 7.2 Kévin Mosbahi (Mika) December 4, 2023
4 Advanced Database Cleaner <= 3.1.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via aDBc_save_settings_callback CVE-2022-46813 4.3 thiennv February 21, 2023
5 Advanced Database Cleaner <= 3.1.0 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2022-2173 6.1 ZhongFu Su June 27, 2022
6 Advanced Database Cleaner <= 3.0.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2021-24921 6.1 ZhongFu Su January 24, 2022
7 Advanced Database Cleaner <= 3.0.1 - SQL injection CVE-2021-24141 7.2 Nguyen Van Khanh September 6, 2020

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