CVE-2025-31049
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability was discovered in themeton Dash, affecting versions through 1.3. The vulnerability was reported on March 29, 2025, by Tran Nguyen Bao Khanh from VCI - VNPT Cyber Immunity, and was officially published on May 19, 2025. This security flaw allows for PHP Object Injection in the WordPress theme Dash (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2025-31049 and is classified as CWE-502 (Deserialization of Untrusted Data). It received a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 9.8 (CRITICAL) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H, indicating a critical severity level with network accessibility, low attack complexity, and no required privileges or user interaction (NVD, Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow malicious actors to execute code injection, SQL injection, path traversal, and denial of service attacks if a proper POP chain is present. The high CVSS score of 9.8 indicates that this vulnerability is highly dangerous and is expected to become mass exploited (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

Currently, no official fix is available for this vulnerability. However, Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate this issue by blocking potential attacks until an official fix becomes available. Website owners are advised to implement mitigation measures immediately (Patchstack).

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