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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-2290
CVE-2024-2290:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Advanced Ads plugin for WordPress contains a PHP Object Injection vulnerability (CVE-2024-2290) affecting all versions up to and including 1.52.1. The vulnerability exists in the deserialization of untrusted input in the 'placement_slug' parameter (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers to inject PHP Objects through untrusted input deserialization. While no POP (Property Oriented Programming) chain is present in the vulnerable plugin itself, if a POP chain exists via additional plugins or themes installed on the target system, it could be exploited (NVD).
Impact
If successfully exploited, this vulnerability could allow attackers to delete arbitrary files, retrieve sensitive data, or execute code on the affected system when combined with a suitable POP chain from other installed components (NVD).
Exploitability
The vulnerability requires authentication to exploit, and its severity is rated as HIGH with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.2. The attack vector is network-based with low attack complexity (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users should update the Advanced Ads plugin to a version newer than 1.52.1 as soon as possible to mitigate this vulnerability (NVD).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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