CVE-2020-36727 - CVE House

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Status published Critical CVE-2020-36727

Newsletter Manager <= 1.5.1 - Insecure Deserialization

9.8 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

The Newsletter Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to insecure deserialization in versions up to, and including, 1.5.1. This is due to unsanitized input from the 'customFieldsDetails' parameter being passed through a deserialization function. This potentially makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject a serialized PHP object.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

Jerome Bruandet

References

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Affected Vendor

f1logic

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Affected Software

Newsletter Manager

Vulnerable Versions:

0

Timeline

Official Publish: June 7th, 2023

Last Modified: April 8th, 2026

Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

T1505.003 Web Shell

T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

Command and Control

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation

Privilege Escalation