vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: slider-responsive-slideshow: CVE-2024-1859: Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 29, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Slider Responsive Slideshow – Image slider, Gallery slideshow plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.8 via deserialization of untrusted input to the awl_slider_responsive_shortcode function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject a PHP Object. No known 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.

Solution

slider-responsive-slideshow-plugin-cve-2024-1859
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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