WP Custom Admin Interface <= 7.28 - Authenticated (Administrator+) PHP Object Injection

7.2
Deserialization of Untrusted Data
CVE CVE-2022-4043
CVSS 7.2 (High)
Publicly Published December 13, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher thinhnguyen1337

Description

The WP Custom Admin Interface plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in versions up to, and including, 7.28, via deserialization of untrusted input in the northernbeacheswebsites_information and wp_custom_admin_interface_import_settings functions. This allows administrator-level attackers 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. The vulnerability is patched by setting allowed_classes. While this makes the vulnerability more or less unexploitable, PHP recommends not passing untrusted input to the unserialize function.

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1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-custom-admin-interface (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 7.29, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 7.28
Patched Version
  • 7.29

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