misterpah Mambo Importer Plugin up to 1.0 on WordPress fImportMenu data deserialization

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A vulnerability was found in misterpah Mambo Importer Plugin up to 1.0 on WordPress and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function fImportMenu. The manipulation of the argument data results in deserialization. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-13899. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in misterpah Mambo Importer Plugin up to 1.0 on WordPress. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is the function fImportMenu. The manipulation of the argument data with an unknown input leads to a deserialization vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-502. The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Mambo Importer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in all versions up to, and including, 1.0 via deserialization of untrusted input via the $data parameter in the fImportMenu function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to inject a PHP Object. No known POP chain is present in the vulnerable software, which means this vulnerability has no impact unless another plugin or theme containing a POP chain is installed on the site. If a POP chain is present via an additional plugin or theme installed on the target system, it may allow the attacker to perform actions like delete arbitrary files, retrieve sensitive data, or execute code depending on the POP chain present.

The weakness was presented by Francesco Carlucci. The advisory is available at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-13899 since 02/20/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 02/22/2025).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Content Management System

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• misterpah

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• Mambo Importer Plugin

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• 1.0

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• open-source

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