Critical severity · published Feb 23, 2023
CVE-2023-26326
The BuddyForms WordPress plugin, in versions prior to 2.7.8, was affected by an unauthenticated insecure deserialization issue
9.8
CVSS
3.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.8% · higher than 90% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BU
Buddyforms · Themekraft
before 2.7.8 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-26326
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-26326
Exploit
https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2023-7
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