Overview
In today’s cybersecurity landscape, vulnerabilities in popular platforms can pose significant risks to countless users and organizations. One such vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-32292, affects the Jarvis – Night Club, Concert, Festival WordPress theme by AncoraThemes. This vulnerability, known as Deserialization of Untrusted Data, allows for Object Injection.
Given the widespread use of WordPress and the popularity of the Jarvis theme, this vulnerability is of significant concern. If successfully exploited, it has the potential to lead to system compromise or data leakage, posing threats to privacy and operational integrity.
Vulnerability Summary
CVE ID: CVE-2025-32292
Severity: Critical (9.8)
Attack Vector: Network
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: Required
Impact: System compromise or data leakage
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Product | Affected Versions
Jarvis – Night Club, Concert, Festival WordPress Theme | Up to and including 1.8.11
How the Exploit Works
The vulnerability arises from the deserialization of untrusted data. In simpler terms, the affected software improperly transforms data from one format to another (deserialization) and doesn’t adequately verify or sanitize the incoming (untrusted) data. As a result, an attacker can manipulate serialized (formatted) data to inject malicious objects into the application’s memory.
Conceptual Example Code
An attacker might exploit the vulnerability with a specially crafted request to a vulnerable endpoint. Below is a conceptual example of how such a request might look like:
POST /jarvis-theme/endpoint HTTP/1.1
Host: target.example.com
Content-Type: application/json
{
"serialized_object":
"O:8:\"stdClass\":1:{s:4:\"code\";s:39:\"system('rm -rf /');\";}"
}In this hypothetical example, the attacker sends a serialized object that, when deserialized, executes a system command (`rm -rf /`), which would delete all files on the server. This is a blunt and destructive example, but a real-world attack would likely be more subtle, potentially adding a backdoor or exfiltrating sensitive data.
Mitigation Guidance
Users of Jarvis – Night Club, Concert, Festival WordPress Theme are strongly advised to apply the vendor patch once it becomes available. In the meantime, Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) or Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) may provide temporary protection by identifying and blocking known exploit patterns.