DesignThemes Red Art WordPress Theme PHP Object Injection Vulnerability

A deserialization vulnerability allowing object injection has been identified in the DesignThemes Red Art WordPress theme, affecting versions through 3.7. This vulnerability could lead to PHP object injection, which, if exploited, might allow a malicious actor to execute code injection, SQL injection, path traversal, denial of service, and more, depending on the presence of a suitable property-oriented programming (POP) chain.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability could result in PHP object injection, allowing for various attacks such as code injection, SQL injection, path traversal, denial of service, and potentially more, if a proper POP chain is available.

Remediation

Users are advised to update to a version of the DesignThemes Red Art WordPress theme that is later than 3.7. For those unable to update immediately, Patchstack offers a virtual patch that can be applied to mitigate the vulnerability until an official fix is available.