Name: CVE-2023-2288: Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2023-05-30T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2023-2288, CWE-502, CVSS 8.8, EPSS 0.17973

The Otter WordPress plugin before 2.2.6 does not sanitize some user-controlled file paths before performing file operations on them. This leads to a PHAR deserialization vulnerability on PHP < 8.0 using the phar:// stream wrapper.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 8.8
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Otter Blocks Plugin	—	Update otter-blocks plugin to version 2.2.6, or a newer patched version	May 15, 2025	May 2, 2023

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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