WP Activity Log - Insecure deserialization

Severity pending

Detected by

Fluid Attacks SAST Scanner

Disclosed by

Andres Roldan

Offensive Team, Fluid Attacks

Summary

Full name

WP Activity Log 5.3.2 - Insecure deserialization

Code name

State

Public

Release date

Feb 27, 2025

Affected product

WP Activity Log

Affected version(s)

Version 5.3.2

Vulnerability name

Insecure deserialization

Remotely exploitable

No

CVSS v4.0 vector string

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U

Exploit available

No

CVE ID(s)

Description

WP Activity Log 5.3.2 was found to be vulnerable. Unvalidated user input is used directly in an unserialize function in myapp/classes/Writers/class-csv-writer.p hp.

Vulnerability

Skims by Fluid Attacks discovered a Insecure deserialization in WP Activity Log 5.3.2. The following is the output of the tool:

Skims output

 228 | public static function write_csv_ajax() {
 229 | if ( ! array_key_exists( 'nonce', $_POST ) || ! wp_verify_nonce( $_POST['nonce'], 'wsal-export-csv-nonce' ) ) { // php
 230 | wp_send_json_error( esc_html_e( 'nonce is not provided or incorrect', 'wp-security-audit-log' ) );
 231 | die();
 232 | }
 233 |
 234 | if ( ! array_key_exists( 'query', $_POST ) ) {
 235 | wp_send_json_error( esc_html_e( 'query is not provided or incorrect', 'wp-security-audit-log' ) );
 236 | die();
 237 | } else {
> 238 |     $query = unserialize( ase64_decode( \sanitize_text_field( \wp_unslash( $_POST['query'] ) ) ) );
  239 |    }
  240 |
  241 |    if ( ! array_key_exists( 'order', $_POST ) ) {
  242 |     wp_send_json_error( esc_html_e( 'order is not provided or incorrect', 'wp-security-audit-log' ) );
  243 |     die();
  244 |    }
  245 |
  246 |    if ( ! array_key_exists( 'step', $_POST ) ) {
  247 |     wp_send_json_error( esc_html_e( 'step is not provided or incorrect', 'wp-security-audit-log' ) );
  248 |     die();
      ^ Col 0

Our security policy

We have reserved the ID CVE-2025-0767 to refer to this issue from now on. Disclosure policy

System Information

  • Version: WP Activity Log 5.3.2

Mitigation

The vendor released the version 5.3.3 with a fix for this vulnerability.

Timeline

Vulnerability discovered

Jan 3, 2025

Vulnerability patched

Mar 3, 2025

Vendor contacted

Feb 24, 2025

Public disclosure

Feb 28, 2025

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