WordPress Employee Spotlight Plugin PHP Object Injection Vulnerability

A deserialization vulnerability allowing PHP object injection has been identified in the WordPress Employee Spotlight plugin, affecting versions through 5.1.1. This vulnerability could potentially lead to various types of code injection, including SQL injection, path traversal, and denial-of-service, especially if a suitable object injection 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 of the WordPress Employee Spotlight plugin should update to version 5.1.2 or later. Patchstack users can enable auto-update for vulnerable plugins.