Intel

AIKIDO-2026-10606

automattic/zoninator is vulnerable to Insecure Deserialization

Insecure Deserialization Pre-CVE
Found by Aikido Intel before public disclosure or CVE publication.
Published Apr 28, 2026

79

High Risk

This Affects:

PHPautomattic/zoninator
0.0.1 - 0.10.2
Fixed in 0.11.0
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TL;DR

Zone details were stored by serializing an array into the term description and read back using maybe_unserialize. That makes the description field a high-traffic PHP deserialization sink. The fix replaces maybe_unserialize with an explicit is_serialized check and performs unserialize with allowed_classes=false, rejecting non-array results so attacker-controlled payloads cannot trigger PHP object instantiation/POP-gadget execution.

Who does this affect?

You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range.

Background info

automattic/zoninator is vulnerable to Insecure Deserialization in versions 0.0.1 - 0.10.2.

How to fix this

Upgrade the automattic/zoninator library to the patch version.

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