WordPress Assistant Plugin PHP Object Injection Vulnerability

A PHP object injection vulnerability allowing object injection has been identified in the WordPress Assistant plugin, affecting versions through 1.5.1. This vulnerability arises from the deserialization of untrusted data, which could potentially be exploited to execute code injection, SQL injection, path traversal, or denial-of-service attacks, provided a suitable property-oriented programming chain is available.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to PHP object injection, allowing for various types of code injection, SQL injection, path traversal, denial-of-service attacks, and more, depending on the presence of a proper property-oriented programming chain.

Remediation

Users of the WordPress Assistant plugin should update to version 1.5.1.1 or later. Patchstack users can enable auto-update for vulnerable plugins.