Digital Zoom Studio DZS Video Gallery PHP Object Injection Vulnerability

A deserialization vulnerability allowing object injection has been identified in the Digital Zoom Studio DZS Video Gallery plugin for WordPress, affecting versions through 12.37. This vulnerability arises from the improper handling of untrusted data, which could potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary code, inject malicious SQL, traverse file paths, cause denial-of-service conditions, and more, if a suitable property-oriented programming chain is available.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to PHP object injection, allowing for a range of attacks including code execution, SQL injection, path traversal, and denial-of-service, depending on the presence of an appropriate object-oriented programming chain.

Remediation

Users are advised to update to a version of the DZS Video Gallery plugin that is later than 12.37. For those unable to update immediately, Patchstack has released a mitigation rule that can be applied to block potential exploitation of this vulnerability.