WordPress Consult Aid Theme PHP Object Injection Vulnerability

A deserialization vulnerability allowing object injection has been identified in the WordPress Consult Aid theme, affecting versions through 1.4.3. 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 could allow for PHP object injection, which is a high-risk issue that could be leveraged to execute code injection, SQL injection, path traversal, denial-of-service, and more, provided that a proper object injection chain is available.

Remediation

Users are advised to immediately mitigate this vulnerability. Patchstack has released a mitigation rule to block attacks until an official fix is available. For more information on how to apply this mitigation, visit the Patchstack website.