AncoraThemes Kids Planet PHP Object Injection Vulnerability

A deserialization vulnerability allowing object injection has been identified in the AncoraThemes Kids Planet WordPress theme, affecting versions through 2.2.14. This vulnerability could lead to various types of code injection, including SQL injection, path traversal, and denial-of-service, especially if a suitable property-oriented programming chain is exploited.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability allows for PHP object injection, which could be leveraged to execute code injection, SQL injection, path traversal, denial-of-service, and more, provided a proper object injection chain is available.

Remediation

Users are advised to update to version 2.2.14.1 or later. Patchstack has issued a virtual patch that automatically mitigates this vulnerability by blocking attacks until the update is applied.