CVE-2025-23944
Published: 22 January 2025
Description
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-23944 is a Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability (CWE-502) in the WOOEXIM WordPress plugin developed by bulktheme, enabling Object Injection. The issue affects WOOEXIM versions from n/a through 5.0.0, as published on 2025-01-22.
Attackers with low privileges (PR:L) can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L) and no user interaction required (UI:N), without changing scope (S:U). Successful exploitation yields high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H), with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8, potentially allowing object injection leading to severe compromise such as arbitrary code execution.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wooexim/vulnerability/wordpress-wooexim-plugin-5-0-0-php-object-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve details the PHP Object Injection vulnerability in the WordPress WOOEXIM plugin version 5.0.0.
Details
- CWE(s)
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
The vulnerability is a remote PHP object injection flaw in a public-facing WordPress plugin that directly enables exploitation of public-facing applications leading to arbitrary code execution.