CVE-2023-26326: Themekraft Buddyforms

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 3.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The BuddyForms WordPress plugin, in versions prior to 2.7.8, was affected by an unauthenticated insecure deserialization issue. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this issue to call files using a PHAR wrapper that will deserialize the data and call arbitrary PHP Objects that can be used to perform a variety of malicious actions granted a POP chain is also present.

Affected products

• Themekraft Buddyforms: before 2.7.8 (fixed in 2.7.8)

Published 2023-02-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.