WordPress Pendulum Theme PHP Object Injection Vulnerability

A deserialization vulnerability allowing object injection has been identified in the WordPress Pendulum theme, affecting versions prior to 3.1.5. This vulnerability could lead to various injection attacks, including code injection, SQL injection, and path traversal, among others, if a suitable property-oriented programming (POP) chain is available.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow for PHP object injection, which is a type of deserialization vulnerability that can lead to various forms of code execution or injection attacks, depending on the presence of a suitable POP chain.

Remediation

Users are advised to update the Pendulum WordPress theme to version 3.1.5 or later. Patchstack has also issued a mitigation rule to block attacks targeting this vulnerability.