🛡️ CVE-2022-2440
🟠 CVSS 7.2 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-502 NVD
7.2
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

The Theme Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted input via the 'images_array' parameter in versions up to, and including 2.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with administrative privileges to call files using a PHAR wrapper that will deserialize 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.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.2
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-502
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-08-29
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-07-10

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
theme-editor — 2.9

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