Deserialization in Themekraft Buddyforms
CVE-2023-26326
The BuddyForms WordPress plugin, in versions prior to 2.7.8, was affected by an unauthenticated insecure deserialization issue. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this issue to call files using a PHAR wrapper that will deserialize the data and call arbitrary PHP Objects that can be used to perform a variety of malicious actions granted a POP chain is also present.
Vulnerability class: Insecure Deserialization
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.038 (89.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 90th percentile — 89.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.038 · newest: 0.038 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Themekraft Buddyforms
- Buddyforms WordPress Plugin — versions All versions prior to version 2.7.8
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2023-7 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2023-26326?
- CVE-2023-26326 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Themekraft Buddyforms, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2023-02-23.
- How severe is CVE-2023-26326?
- Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2023-26326 known to be exploited?
- 11 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.