Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-6933 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in Wpengine Better Search Replace
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
The Better Search Replace plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.4 via deserialization of untrusted input. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject a PHP Object. No POP chain is present in the vulnerable plugin. If a POP chain is present via an additional plugin or theme installed on the target system, it could allow the attacker to delete arbitrary files, retrieve sensitive data, or execute code.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/895f2db1-a2ed-4a17-a4f6-cd13ee8f84af?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/better-search-replace/trunk/includes/class-bsr-db.php#L334
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3023674/better-search-replace/trunk/includes/class-bsr-db.php