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CVE-2023-34382: WordPress Dokan Plugin <= 3.7.19 is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 35/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.68% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 52.2% of all records.
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: weDevs Dokan – Best WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution – Build Your Own Amazon, eBay, Etsy 3.7.20.
Severity is disputed: the assigning authority (CNA) scores it 4.4, NVD 8.8.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to weDevs Dokan – Best WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution – Build Your Own Amazon, eBay, Etsy 3.7.20 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in weDevs Dokan – Best WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution – Build Your Own Amazon, eBay, Etsy.This issue affects Dokan – Best WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution – Build Your Own Amazon, eBay, Etsy: from n/a through 3.7.19.

HighCVSS 8.8 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

Deserialization

Published: Dec 19, 2023
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.6% · 52th percentile
CWE: CWE-502

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 35 / 40 · 8.8 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.6%

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: 8.8
CNA · Patchstack: 4.4; 4.4 point gap

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

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
dokan	dokan	cpe:2.3:a:dokan:dokan

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

dokan dokanbefore 3.7.20

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Patchstack). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

weDevs Dokan – Best WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution – Build Your Own Amazon, eBay, Etsy
- n/a and later · up to and including 3.7.19affectedfixed in 3.7.20

Same product

dokan: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2024-3922Dokan Pro <= 3.10.3 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection
55Plan
CVE-2022-3915Dokan < 3.7.6 - Unauthenticated SQLi
39Monitor
CVE-2023-26525WordPress Dokan Plugin <= 3.7.12 is vulnerable to SQL Injection
32Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2020-36748Jul 1, 2023 · Dokan <= 3.0.8 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Bypass
17Monitor
Later →CVE-2022-3194Jan 16, 2024 · Dokan < 3.6.4 - Vendor Stored Cross-Site Scripting
21Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
weDevs Dokan – Best WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution – Build Your Own Amazon, eBay, Etsy	3.7.20	Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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Theodoros Malachias (Patchstack Alliance)finder

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
A low-privileged account is enough.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: high · data can be read
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: High
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-502 · Deserialization of Untrusted Data

CVSS vector

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

nvd-primary

Root cause

Data received over the network is deserialized into the language’s native object format without verifying its source. Code paths inside the object can be triggered during deserialization.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-502 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

python

1payload = sock.recv(65536)
2job = pickle.loads(payload)

Fixed

python

1payload = sock.recv(65536)
2if not hmac.compare_digest(sign(payload), header_sig):
3    raise PermissionError("invalid signature")
4job = JobSchema.validate(json.loads(payload))

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

Attack patterns (CAPEC)

Object InjectionCAPEC-586likelihood: Medium · High

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:11 PM UTC

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References

patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/dokan-lite/wordpress-dokan-plugin-3-7-19-php-object-injection-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

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