QID 154155

Date Published: 2024-04-08

QID 154155: WordPress Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2024-31211)

WordPress is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database.

The vulnerability allows for remote code execution via the __destruct() magic method of the WP_HTML_Token class when instances of this class are unserialized. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Affected Versions:
WordPress from 6.4 to 6.4.1

QID Detection Logic:
This QID sends an HTTP GET request and checks for vulnerable version of WordPress running on the target application.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

CVSS V3 rated as Medium - 5.5 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5.5 severity.

Solution

Customers are advised to upgrade to 6.4.2 or latest version of WordPress to remediate these vulnerabilities. For more information regarding these vulnerabilities please visit Github Advisory.

Vendor References

CVEs related to QID 154155

CVE-2024-31211 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
GitHub Advisory			github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/security/advisories/GHSA-m257-q4m5-j653
WordPress			wordpress.org/download/

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