THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2023-26326
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2023-26326

Buddyforms vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
3.8%
EPSS pct
89th
Exploited
No known
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.
Affected vendor
Themekraft
Affected product
Buddyforms
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-502 — Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Published
2023-02-23

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2023-26326

  • Confirm whether Themekraft Buddyforms is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2023-26326.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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