CVE-2025-5497 is a critical deserialization vulnerability affecting slackero phpwcms versions up to 1.9.45 and 1.10.8, specifically within the Feedimport Module's processing.inc.php file. This vulnerability, triggered by manipulating the 'cnt_text' argument, allows for remote code execution with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL) and publicly available exploit code, immediate patching to versions 1.9.46 or 1.10.9 is strongly recommended, despite limited community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.10.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:phpwcms:phpwcms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.