CVE-2025-53465
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2025-53465 is a Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability discovered in the GSheets Connector WordPress plugin. The vulnerability affects versions through 1.1.1 of the GSheets Connector plugin developed by raoinfotech. The issue was discovered by security researcher Drew Webber (mcdruid) and was publicly disclosed on September 22, 2025 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a PHP Object Injection issue (CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data). It received a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 7.2 (HIGH) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H, indicating that the vulnerability requires high privileges but can potentially lead to high impacts across confidentiality, integrity, and availability (Patchstack).

Impact

The 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 specific impact varies case by case, but the potential for high impact across confidentiality, integrity, and availability has been noted in the CVSS scoring (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

Currently, there is no official fix available for this vulnerability. The issue affects versions through 1.1.1, and no patched version has been released as of the disclosure date (Patchstack).

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