CVE-2024-30225
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The WP Migrate WordPress plugin, developed by WPENGINE, INC., contains a Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability affecting versions through 2.6.10. The vulnerability was discovered and reported by Dave Jong from Patchstack on January 14, 2024, and was publicly disclosed on March 26, 2024 (Patchstack Report).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as PHP Object Injection (CWE-502) with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 10.0 CRITICAL (Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H). This indicates that the vulnerability is network-accessible, requires low attack complexity, needs no privileges or user interaction, and can potentially result in high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (Patchstack Report).

Impact

The PHP Object Injection vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to execute code injection, SQL injection, path traversal, and denial of service attacks if a proper POP chain is present. The vulnerability is considered highly dangerous and is expected to become mass exploited (Patchstack Report).

Exploitability

The vulnerability is particularly severe as it can be exploited without authentication, making it accessible to any attacker who can reach the target website. The low attack complexity and lack of required user interaction make this vulnerability highly exploitable (Patchstack Report).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users are strongly advised to update to version 2.6.11 or later to resolve the vulnerability. Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate this issue by blocking any attacks until users can update to a fixed version (Patchstack Report).

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