wpDataTables - Tables & Table Charts <= 2.1.65 - Authenticated(Administrator+) PHP Object Injection

The wpDataTables - Tables & Table Charts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in versions up to, and including, 2.1.65 via deserialization of untrusted input in multiple functions. This allows authenticated attackers with administrator capabilities to inject a PHP Object. The additional presence of a POP chain may allow attackers to delete arbitrary files.

An attacker needs Administrator access first, so the firewall sees the attempt as traffic from a logged-in account: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. Classes like this one can leave something behind, so the staged malware scanner is the second half: it looks for dropped files and modified code rather than for the request that created them. None of that substitutes for the fix: wpDataTables 2.1.66 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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