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QA Assistants <= 5.3.0 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'raw_name' and 'dlevent_ver' Parameters

8.8HighCNA
Exploited
No known exploitation
Fix
No fix listed
Who is exposed
Not reported
Published
Last modified
0.80% · 56th percentile
17/100 · provisional
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

The QA Assistants (Driven by data) WordPress plugin contains a PHP object injection flaw that can lead to remote code execution, including arbitrary file writes through a bundled Guzzle component. An attacker can reach it remotely over the network with a low-privilege login, and no user interaction is needed.

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The QA Assistants – Driven by data plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in all versions up to, and including, 5.3.0 via the 'dlevent_ver' parameter. This is due to unrestricted PHP deserialization via wrap_unserialize_static() calling unserialize() without an allowed_classes restriction, combined with serialize_escape() failing to sanitize path traversal sequences in the raw_name parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject a PHP Object. The Guzzle FileCookieJar gadget present in the plugin's bundled Composer dependencies can be leveraged to perform an Arbitrary File Write, writing attacker-controlled content to an attacker-chosen filename, which can result in Remote Code Execution. Exploitation requires triggering the qahm_cron_data_manage scheduled event via wp-cron.php to invoke the deserialization sink against a planted queue file, but this endpoint requires no authentication and fires automatically on a two-minute schedule.

cve.now Index

17Pcve.now Index 17 of 100 · methodology v3 · provisional
  • Exploitation?/40Unknown. No CISA SSVC exploitation rating yet
  • Exposure3/25Reachable over the network · Unknown: No advisory context yet
  • Reach?/20Unknown. No tracked technology or package matched
  • Severity8.8/10CVSS 8.8
  • No patch5/5No patch listed yet

What would change the score

  • Would score about 72 if added to CISA KEV
  • Would score about 67 if CISA's SSVC rates exploitation active
  • Would score about 36 if advisories confirm default setups are exposed

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. First seen by cve.now

Affected versions

  • quarka QA Assistants – Driven by data

    through 5.3.0

Evidence 9

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Corrections

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Questions about CVE-2026-87112

Is CVE-2026-87112 being exploited?

It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. No public exploit code is tracked.Source: cve.now feed data

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-87112?

QA Assistants – Driven by data: through 5.3.0.Source: cve.now feed data