WOOEXIM WordPress Plugin PHP Object Injection Vulnerability

A deserialization vulnerability allowing object injection has been identified in the WOOEXIM WordPress plugin, affecting versions through 5.0.0. This vulnerability could lead to various injection attacks, including code injection, SQL injection, and path traversal, among other issues, if a suitable property-oriented programming (POP) chain is available.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow for PHP object injection, which could be leveraged to execute code injection, SQL injection, path traversal, denial-of-service attacks, and more, depending on the presence of a proper POP chain.

Remediation

Users are advised to update to a version of the WOOEXIM WordPress plugin later than 5.0.0. For those unable to update immediately, Patchstack offers a virtual patch that can be applied to mitigate the vulnerability until an official update is available.