Vigil@nce - WordPress BP Profile Search: code execution via PHP object injection
February 2017 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can inject a PHP object into WordPress BP Profile
Search, in order to run code.
Impacted products: WordPress Plugins not comprehensive.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 12/12/2016.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The BP Profile Search plugin can be installed on WordPress.
However, one can inject a serialized PHP object in a request body,
in order to corrupt the server script and perhaps run some code.
An attacker can therefore inject a PHP object into WordPress BP
Profile Search, in order to run code.
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