Deserialization of Untrusted Data
CVE-2020-35939
Summary
PHP Object injection vulnerabilities in the Team Showcase plugin before 1.22.16 for WordPress allow remote authenticated attackers to inject arbitrary PHP objects due to insecure unserialization of data supplied in a remotely hosted crafted payload in the source parameter via AJAX. The action must be set to team_import_xml_layouts.
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- NETWORK
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- UNCHANGED
- NONE
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- HIGH
- HIGH
CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Deserialization of untrusted data vulnerabilities enable an attacker to replace or manipulate a serialized object, replacing it with malicious data. When the object is deserialized at the victim's end the malicious data is able to compromise the victim’s system. The exploit can be devastating, its impact may range from privilege escalation, broken access control, or denial of service attacks to allowing unauthorized access to the application's internal code and logic which can compromise the entire system.
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