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WP Smart Security Plugin for WordPress PHP Object Injection

high Nessus Plugin ID 105108

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Synopsis

The remote web server is running a PHP application that is affected by a PHP object injection vulnerability.

Description

The WP Smart Security Plugin for WordPress is affected by a PHP object injection vulnerability. This plugin is no longer maintained, therefore all known versions are impacted. This vulnerability could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to inject PHP objects and execute arbitrary code.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the plugins self-reported version number.

Solution

Disable and remove the vulnerable plugin.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7ea01d3a

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smart-security/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 105108

File Name: wordpress_wp_smart_security.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 12/8/2017

Updated: 5/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Enable CGI Scanning: true

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:wordpress:wordpress

Required KB Items: installed_sw/WordPress, www/PHP

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/22/2017