WordPress Social Counter PHP Object Injection Vulnerability

A deserialization vulnerability allowing object injection has been identified in the WordPress Social Counter plugin, affecting versions through 2.0.5. This vulnerability could potentially lead to various types of code injection, including SQL injection, path traversal, and denial-of-service, especially if a suitable PHP object injection chain is exploited.

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, and more, if a proper PHP object injection chain is present.

Remediation

Users of the WordPress Social Counter plugin should update to version 2.1 or later to address this vulnerability. Patchstack users can enable auto-update for vulnerable plugins.