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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-07-18 16:13 – Updated: 2025-05-05 16:19
VLAI?
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
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
slickremix Feed Them Social – Page, Post, Video, and Photo Galleries Affected: * , ≤ 2.9.8.5 (semver)
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Credits
Rasoul Jahanshahi
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