Elated Themes Askka WordPress Theme PHP Object Injection Vulnerability

A deserialization vulnerability allowing object injection has been identified in the Elated Themes Askka WordPress theme, affecting versions through 1.3.1. This vulnerability arises from the improper handling of untrusted data, which could potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary code, inject malicious SQL, traverse file paths, cause denial-of-service conditions, and more, if a suitable property-oriented programming chain is available.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to PHP object injection, allowing for a range of attacks including code execution, SQL injection, path traversal, and denial-of-service, depending on the presence of a proper object injection chain.

Remediation

Users are advised to update the Askka WordPress theme to version 1.4 or later. Patchstack has also issued a mitigation rule to block attacks targeting this vulnerability until the update is applied.