CVE-2024-13831
Published: 28 February 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-13831 is a high-severity Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CWE-502) vulnerability in Wpbranch Tabs For Woocommerce. Its CVSS base score is 7.2 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 48.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Requires timely identification, reporting, and remediation of the PHP object injection flaw in the Tabs for WooCommerce plugin, directly eliminating the deserialization vulnerability.
Enforces validation of untrusted input deserialized in the product_has_custom_tabs function, preventing injection of malicious PHP objects.
Limits Shop Manager-level access to essential personnel only, reducing the number of authenticated users able to exploit the vulnerability.
NVD Description
The Tabs for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.0 via deserialization of untrusted input in the 'product_has_custom_tabs' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Shop Manager-level…
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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.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2024-13831 is a PHP Object Injection vulnerability (CWE-502) affecting the Tabs for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress in all versions up to and including 1.0.0. The issue arises from deserialization of untrusted input in the 'product_has_custom_tabs' function, enabling the injection of a PHP Object. Published on 2025-02-28 with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.2 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), it poses a high-impact risk under specific conditions.
Authenticated attackers with Shop Manager-level access or higher can exploit this vulnerability over the network with low complexity. While no known Property-Oriented Programming (POP) chain exists within the vulnerable plugin itself—limiting standalone impact—the presence of a POP chain from another installed plugin or theme could allow severe consequences, such as deleting arbitrary files, retrieving sensitive data, or executing arbitrary code, depending on the chain.
Advisories and source code details are available from Wordfence at https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/790a2c64-b358-41ed-be17-f2b99d294617?source=cve and the plugin's trac repository at https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wc-tabs/trunk/wc-tabs-lite.php#L363, which highlight the deserialization point at line 363.
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