CVE-2022-2438

HIGH

Published 2022-09-06T17:18:57.000Z

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CVSS Score

V3.1

7.2

/10

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Base Score Metrics

Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2023.03.01

0.002

probability

of exploitation in the wild

There is a 0.2% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-01-25

Exploit Probability

Percentile: 0.580

Higher than 58.0% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector

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Attack Complexity

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Privileges Required

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User Interaction

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Scope

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Impact Metrics

Confidentiality

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Availability

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Description

The Broken Link Checker plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted input via the '$log_file' value in versions up to, and including 1.11.16. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with administrative privileges and above 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. It also requires that the attacker is successful in uploading a file with the serialized payload.