CVE-2026-87112 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 08.09.2026 Published: 07.11.2026 Updated: 07.11.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 8.8

Product Status

Vendor quarka
Product QA Assistants – Driven by data
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 5.3.0 (incl.)

Credits

  • Supakiad S. (m3ez) finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data CWE