Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-49688

CriticalRCE

Published: 21 January 2025

Published
21 January 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0047 65.2th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-49688 is a critical-severity Deserialization of Untrusted Data (CWE-502) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 34.8% 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).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2024-49688 is a Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability (CWE-502) in the ARPrice WordPress plugin developed by reputeinfosystems. The flaw enables Object Injection and affects all versions of ARPrice from unknown initial versions through 4.1.3.

With a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), the vulnerability is exploitable over the network by unauthenticated attackers requiring low complexity and no user interaction. Successful exploitation can lead to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The Patchstack advisory documents this as an unauthenticated PHP Object Injection vulnerability specifically in ARPrice plugin version 4.0.3, with details available in their WordPress plugin vulnerability database.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in reputeinfosystems ARPrice arprice allows Object Injection.This issue affects ARPrice: from n/a through <= 4.1.3.

CWE(s)
CWE-502

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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Why these techniques?

Unauthenticated remote deserialization/Object Injection in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables server-side exploitation of web applications over the network.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

Directly remediates the deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability in ARPrice by identifying, reporting, and applying patches to affected plugin versions.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Validates untrusted inputs to the ARPrice plugin to block malicious serialized data that enables PHP object injection.

RA-5 Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning partial match
detect

Monitors and scans for the presence of vulnerable ARPrice plugin versions affected by CVE-2024-49688.

References