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CVE-2023-2288

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Description

The Otter WordPress plugin before 2.2.6 does not sanitize some user-controlled file paths before performing file operations on them. This leads to a PHAR deserialization vulnerability on PHP < 8.0 using the phar:// stream wrapper.

Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
8.8 (v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Modified
Source identifier
Published
2023-05-30 08:15:10.217000
Last modified
2026-10-24 13:10:00.147000
View original CVE JSON
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