What is CVE-2024-5488?

CVE-2024-5488 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Seopress, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2024-07-09.

How severe is CVE-2024-5488?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-5488 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Deserialization in Seopress

CVE-2024-5488

The SEOPress WordPress plugin before 7.9 does not properly protect some of its REST API routes, which combined with another Object Injection vulnerability can allow unauthenticated attackers to unserialize malicious gadget chains, compromising the site if a suitable chain is present.

Vulnerability class: Insecure Deserialization

EPSS: 0.037 (88.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Seopress
Unknown Seopress — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-502 — Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-5488?: CVE-2024-5488 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Seopress, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2024-07-09.
How severe is CVE-2024-5488?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-5488 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.