🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2026-87112

HIGH 8.8

QA Assistants <= 5.3.0 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'raw_name' and 'dlevent_ver' Parameters

CVSS Score
8.8
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

The QA Assistants – Driven by data plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in all versions up to, and including, 5.3.0 via the 'dlevent_ver' parameter. This is due to unrestricted PHP deserialization via wrap_unserialize_static() calling unserialize() without an allowed_classes restriction, combined with serialize_escape() failing to sanitize path traversal sequences in the raw_name parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject a PHP Object. The Guzzle FileCookieJar gadget present in the plugin's bundled Composer dependencies can be leveraged to perform an Arbitrary File Write, writing attacker-controlled content to an attacker-chosen filename, which can result in Remote Code Execution. Exploitation requires triggering the qahm_cron_data_manage scheduled event via wp-cron.php to invoke the deserialization sink against a planted queue file, but this endpoint requires no authentication and fires automatically on a two-minute schedule.

CWE CWE-502
Vendor quarka
Product qa assistants – driven by data
Published Nov 7, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

quarka / QA Assistants – Driven by data
0 ≤ 5.3.0

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/76c5b5f1-a04b-4219-b8c0-ee53139fa787?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/qa-heatmap-analytics/tags/5.2.0.1/class-qahm-base.php#L701 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/qa-heatmap-analytics/tags/5.2.0.1/class-qahm-admin-page-realtime.php#L183 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/qa-heatmap-analytics/tags/5.2.0.1/vendor/guzzlehttp/guzzle/src/Cookie/FileCookieJar.php#L38 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/qa-heatmap-analytics/tags/5.2.0.1/class-qahm-cron-proc.php#L698 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/qa-heatmap-analytics/tags/5.2.0.1/class-qahm-core-base.php#L780 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/qa-heatmap-analytics/tags/5.2.0.1/qahm-ajax.php#L319 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/qa-heatmap-analytics/tags/5.2.0.1/class-qahm-behavioral-data.php#L770 plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3728466%40qa-heatmap-analytics&new=3728466%40qa-heatmap-analytics

Credits

Supakiad S. (m3ez)