Universam Plugin up to 8.72.34 on WordPress deserialization

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Universam Plugin up to 8.72.34 on WordPress. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. Performing a manipulation results in deserialization. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-60238. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Universam Plugin up to 8.72.34 on WordPress. This affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation 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. The summary by CVE is:

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in universam UNIVERSAM universam-demo allows Object Injection.This issue affects UNIVERSAM: from n/a through <= 8.72.34.

The weakness was presented by Mcdruid. It is possible to read the advisory at vdp.patchstack.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-60238 since 09/25/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/22/2025).

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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Type

• WordPress Plugin

Name

• Universam Plugin

Version

• 8.72.0
• 8.72.1
• 8.72.2
• 8.72.3
• 8.72.4
• 8.72.5
• 8.72.6
• 8.72.7
• 8.72.8
• 8.72.9
• 8.72.10
• 8.72.11
• 8.72.12
• 8.72.13
• 8.72.14
• 8.72.15
• 8.72.16
• 8.72.17
• 8.72.18
• 8.72.19
• 8.72.20
• 8.72.21
• 8.72.22
• 8.72.23
• 8.72.24
• 8.72.25
• 8.72.26
• 8.72.27
• 8.72.28
• 8.72.29
• 8.72.30
• 8.72.31
• 8.72.32
• 8.72.33
• 8.72.34

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