Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-2438 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in Managewp Broken Link Checker

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

• CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data

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