ImageMagick Engine <= 1.7.5 — Cross-Site Request Forgery to PHAR Deserialization
CVE-2022-3568Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.7.5Update to 1.7.6 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High8.8
- CVSS
- 8.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:RUser interaction- Required
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Weakness
- CWE-502 PHP Object Injection
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
ImageMagick Engine imagemagick-engine
- Affected≤ 1.7.5
- Patched in1.7.6
Update to 1.7.6 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.7.5. Version 1.7.6 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under ImageMagick Engine.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 1.7.6, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch ImageMagick Engine to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Rasoul Jahanshahi.
The ImageMagick Engine plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted input via the 'cli_path' parameter in versions up to, and including 1.7.5. This makes it possible for unauthenticated users to call files using a PHAR wrapper, granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link, that will deserialize and call arbitrary PHP Objects that can be used to perform a variety of malicious actions granted a POP chain is also present. It also requires that the attacker is successful in uploading a file with the serialized payload.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
More in ImageMagick Engine
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|---|---|---|---|
| High7.2 | Authenticated (Administrator+) Remote Code Execution ≤1.7.10Update to 1.7.11 | CVE-2024-6486 | |
| High8.8 | Cross-Site Request Forgery to Remote Command Execution ≤1.7.5Update to 1.7.6 | CVE-2022-2441 |
- High7.2Authenticated (Administrator+) Remote Code Execution
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- High8.8Cross-Site Request Forgery to Remote Command Execution
≤1.7.5Update to 1.7.6
Same weakness (PHP Object Injection)
All PHP Object Injection| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| High7.2 | Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent Header | CVE-2026-120688 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form Submission | CVE-2026-125055 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter | CVE-2026-119077 | |
| Medium5.3 | Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter | CVE-2026-121518 |
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 8.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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