Description

The Advanced Database Cleaner plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.3 via deserialization of untrusted input in the 'process_bulk_action' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attacker, with administrator access and above, 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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-0668

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 6.6

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

Affected Products

Vendor: symptote

Product: Advanced Database Cleaner

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.75% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 72.13% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-27 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: total

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0668
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e0b8c24b-3e51-4637-9d8e-da065077d082?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-database-cleaner/tags/3.1.3/includes/class_clean_cron.php#L224
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-database-cleaner/tags/3.1.3/includes/class_clean_cron.php#L298
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3025980/

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