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Medium · 5.5 Public exploit CVE-2024-31211 EUVD-2024-29111

Remote Code Execution in `WP_HTML_Token`

Published Apr 4, 2024 · Updated Aug 2, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Vendor: WordPress Product: wordpress-develop Package: wordpress Package: wordpress Category: Web / CMS Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

WordPress is an open publishing platform for the Web. Unserialization of instances of the `WP_HTML_Token` class allows for code execution via its `__destruct()` magic method. This issue was fixed in WordPress 6.4.2 on December 6th, 2023. Versions prior to 6.4.0 are not affected.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
WordPress wordpress-develop >= 6.4.0 < 6.4.2 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Debian

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 wordpress 6.4.2+dfsg1-1 —
Debian 13 wordpress 6.4.2+dfsg1-1 —

Ubuntu

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS wordpress No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS wordpress No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS wordpress No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS wordpress No fix yet —

Public exploits

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GitHub 1 repository

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