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CVE-2022-2440

HIGH CVSS: 7.2 Published: 2024-08-29 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

The Theme Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted input via the 'images_array' parameter in versions up to, and including 2.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with administrative privileges to call files using a PHAR wrapper that will deserialize 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.

Affected Platforms

Themeeditor Theme Editor

Weakness Type

CWE-502

References