CVE-2025-67997
Deserialization Object Injection in Travelicious Plugin
Publication date: 2026-02-20
Last updated on: 2026-02-24
Assigner: Patchstack
Description
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| boldthemes | travelicious | to 1.6.7 (exc) |
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Exploitability
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-502 | The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently ensuring that the resulting data will be valid. |
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AI Powered Q&A
Can you explain this vulnerability to me?
CVE-2025-67997 is a high-priority PHP Object Injection vulnerability affecting the WordPress Travelicious Theme versions prior to 1.6.7.
This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to perform PHP Object Injection, which means they can inject malicious objects into the application.
If a suitable Property Oriented Programming (POP) chain is available, this can lead to severe impacts such as code injection, SQL injection, path traversal, denial of service, and other critical issues.
The vulnerability falls under the OWASP Top 10 category A3: Injection.
How can this vulnerability impact me? :
This vulnerability can have severe impacts including:
- Code injection, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code on the affected system.
- SQL injection, potentially compromising the database and exposing sensitive data.
- Path traversal, which can allow attackers to access files and directories outside the intended scope.
- Denial of service, disrupting the availability of the affected website.
The vulnerability requires no privileges to exploit, making it a high-severity threat.
How does this vulnerability affect compliance with common standards and regulations (like GDPR, HIPAA)?:
I don't know
How can this vulnerability be detected on my network or system? Can you suggest some commands?
This vulnerability affects the WordPress Travelicious Theme versions prior to 1.6.7 and involves PHP Object Injection. Detection typically involves monitoring for exploitation attempts targeting this theme.
While specific commands are not provided in the available resources, common detection methods include checking for unusual HTTP requests containing serialized PHP objects or payloads attempting object injection.
Network or system administrators can monitor web server logs for suspicious POST or GET requests targeting the Travelicious theme files, especially those containing serialized data or unusual parameters.
What immediate steps should I take to mitigate this vulnerability?
The primary and recommended mitigation is to update the Travelicious Theme to version 1.6.7 or later, which contains the patch for this vulnerability.
Until the update can be applied, Patchstack provides an immediate mitigation rule that can be used to block attacks targeting this vulnerability, enabling rapid protection for affected WordPress sites.
Since the vulnerability requires no privileges to exploit and is high severity, applying these mitigations promptly is critical to prevent potential code injection, SQL injection, path traversal, denial of service, and other severe impacts.