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CVE-2022-2437: Feed Them Social – for Twitter feed, Youtube and more <= 2.9.8.5 - Unauthenticated PHAR Deserialization
- Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2022-07-18 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-502
Description
The Feed Them Social – for Twitter feed, Youtube and more plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted input via the 'fts_url' parameter in versions up to, and including 2.9.8.5. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to call files using a PHAR wrapper that will deserialize the data and call arbitrary PHP Objects that can be used to perform a variety of malicious actions granted a POP chain is also present. It also requires that the attacker is successful in uploading a file with the serialized payload.
Affected products
- slickremix Feed Them Social – Social Media Feeds, Video, and Photo Galleries: before 2.9.8.6 — fixed in 2.9.8.6
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: slickremix Feed Them Social – Social Media Feeds, Video, and Photo Galleries 2.9.8.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2754749%40feed-them-social&new=2754749%40feed-them-social&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/50bcea94-b12a-4b31-b0c1-bba834ea9bd0?source=cve
- https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-2437
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=2754749%40feed-them-social&new=2754749%40feed-them-social&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/50bcea94-b12a-4b31-b0c1-bba834ea9bd0?source=cve
- https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-2437
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