WP Meta SEO <= 4.5.4 - Authenticated (Author+) PHAR Deserialization

8.8
Deserialization of Untrusted Data
CVE CVE-2023-1381
CVSS 8.8 (High)
Publicly Published March 27, 2023
Last Updated March 29, 2023
Researcher Alex Sanford

Description

The WP Meta SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in versions up to, and including, 4.5.4 due to insufficient file path validation that makes it possible for attackers to supply paths to files with a phar:// wrapper that will unserialize during retrieval. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level permissions and above, to inject a PHP Object. The plugin does contain a useable gadget chain that may make remote execution possible.

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1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-meta-seo (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 4.5.5, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 4.5.4
Patched Version
  • 4.5.5

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