CVE-2025-46473 HIGH

CVE-2025-46473: WordPress Social Counter plugin <= 2.0.5 - PHP Object Injection Vulnerability

Vendor Prisna

Product Social Counter

Weakness CWE-502 · Unsafe deserialization

Published April 24, 2025

Last update April 28, 2026

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CVSS base score

7.2/10

Attack vector Network

Attack complexity Low

Privileges required High

User interaction None

Confidentiality High

Integrity High

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in Prisna Social Counter social-counter allows Object Injection.This issue affects Social Counter: from n/a through <= 2.0.5.

Explanation of Vulnerability in Simple Terms

02Summary

Social Counter versions up to 2.0.5 contain a deserialization vulnerability that allows authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary code on the site. An attacker with high-level admin access can craft malicious serialized data to trigger code execution. This affects confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the site.

What an attacker can do

03Attacker Capabilities

Run arbitrary code on the site with full administrative privileges.

Potential impact on your site

04Site Impact

A compromised admin account can fully compromise the site, steal data, modify content, or take the site offline.

Conditions required to exploit

05Prerequisites

Attacker must have high-level administrator access to the site.

Key dates

06Disclosure timeline

April 24, 2025 CVE published

April 28, 2026 Record updated

External resources

07References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-46473 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/502.html

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