coreActivity: Activity Logging for WordPress <= 3.0 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection via 'user_agent' Log Meta Field
Published May 13, 2026
8.1
HIGHCVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.83%
Description
The coreActivity: Activity Logging for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in all versions up to, and including, 3.0. This is due to the plugin failing to validate or strip PHP serialization syntax from the User-Agent HTTP header before storing it in the logmeta table, and subsequently calling `maybe_unserialize()` on every retrieved `meta_value` in `query_metas()` without verifying the data was originally serialized by the application. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject a crafted PHP serialized payload via the User-Agent header during any logged event (such as a failed login attempt), which, when an administrator views the Logs page, is deserialized and passed to `DeviceDetector::setUserAgent()`, triggering a Fatal TypeError that creates a persistent Denial of Service condition blocking administrator access to the Logs page entirely.
Affected products
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- Version 0StatusaffectedConstraints<=3.0
- Version
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
| Vendor | Product | Default status | Versions | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gdragon | coreActivity: Activity Logging for WordPress | unaffected |
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No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v2.0 score for this CVE.
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
CISA SSVC (Vulnrichment)
Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization from CISA ADP.
Exploitation
NoneAutomatable
NoTechnical Impact
TotalDecision
n/aAssessed May 13, 2026 · SSVC 2.0.3
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
Score over time
May–Oct 2026- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (3 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 0.83% (0.00833) | 56.10th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 0.48% (0.00481) | 37.49th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| May 13, 2026 | 0.09% (0.00093) | 25.88th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
References (12)
- https://github.com/dev4press/coreactivity/pull/3/changes/1f09331d66de7cf4bba9b6e396b0d4e7597fcde2
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/coreactivity/tags/3.0/core/log/Core.php#L252
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/coreactivity/tags/3.0/core/log/Device.php#L35
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/coreactivity/tags/3.0/core/table/Logs.php#L161
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/coreactivity/tags/3.0/vendor/dev4press/library/dev4press/core/plugins/DBLite.php#L268
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/coreactivity/tags/3.0/vendor/dev4press/library/dev4press/wordpress/admin/Table.php#L290
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/coreactivity/trunk/core/log/Core.php#L252
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/coreactivity/trunk/core/log/Device.php#L35
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/coreactivity/trunk/core/table/Logs.php#L161
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/coreactivity/trunk/vendor/dev4press/library/dev4press/core/plugins/DBLite.php#L268
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/coreactivity/trunk/vendor/dev4press/library/dev4press/wordpress/admin/Table.php#L290
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/59f30135-6dd9-4367-90a9-a10ad491357d?source=cve
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