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CVE-2023-26326

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-02-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-502

Description

The BuddyForms WordPress plugin, in versions prior to 2.7.8, was affected by an unauthenticated insecure deserialization issue. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this issue 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.

Affected products

• Themekraft BuddyForms: before 2.7.8 — fixed in 2.7.8

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Themekraft BuddyForms 2.7.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2023-7
• https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2023-7

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