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It also requires that the attacker is successful in uploading a file with the serialized payload.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-09","score":0.01617,"percentile":0.76201,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-352","CWE-502"],"published":"2022-09-06T17:18:57Z","modified":"2026-06-17T04:41:53Z","products":[{"vendor":"instawp","product":"string locator"},{"vendor":"instawp","product":"string_locator"}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/10a36e37-4188-403f-9b17-d7e79b8b8a6d?source=cve","tags":["x_transferred","Third Party Advisory"]},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/string-locator/trunk/editor.php#L59","tags":["x_transferred","Broken Link"]},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=\u0026sfph_mail=\u0026reponame=\u0026old=2759486%40string-locator\u0026new=2759486%40string-locator\u0026sfp_email=\u0026sfph_mail=","tags":["x_transferred","Patch"]},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2022-2434","tags":["x_transferred","Third Party Advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2434"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q8hw-79g9-xx95"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2022-2434","title":"String Locator \u003c= 2.5.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to PHAR Deserialization","description":"The String Locator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted input via the 'string-locator-path' parameter in versions up to, and including 2.5.0. 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