CVE-2022-2437 (GCVE-0-2022-2437)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-07-18 16:13 – Updated: 2026-04-08 16:52
VLAI
Title
Feed Them Social – for Twitter feed, Youtube and more <= 2.9.8.5 - Unauthenticated PHAR Deserialization
Summary
The Feed Them Social – for Twitter feed, Youtube and more plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted input via the 'fts_url' parameter in versions up to, and including 2.9.8.5. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to call files using a PHAR wrapper that will deserialize the data and call arbitrary PHP Objects that can be used to perform a variety of malicious actions granted a POP chain is also present. It also requires that the attacker is successful in uploading a file with the serialized payload.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-23 13:15 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Assigner
Wordfence CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 2432 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
slickremix Feed Them Social – Social Media Feeds, Video, and Photo Galleries Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.9.8.5 (semver)
guessed Create a notification for this product.
Credits
Rasoul Jahanshahi
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