CVE-2025-69079
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedDeserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in ThemeREX Sound | Musical Instruments Online Store musicplace allows Object Injection.This issue affects Sound | Musical Instruments Online Store: from n/a through <= 1.6.9.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceA deserialization vulnerability in the ThemeREX Sound | Musical Instruments Online Store theme (versions up to 1.6.9) allows attackers to inject PHP objects via untrusted serialized data, potentially leading to remote code execution if exploitable classes exist in the application or loaded plugins.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify if ThemeREX musicplace theme is installedCheck wp-content/themes/ directory for a theme folder named 'musicplace', 'musical-instruments-online-store', or similar ThemeREX theme directories. Look for style.css with ThemeREX branding.Affected if The ThemeREX musicplace theme folder exists in the WordPress themes directory.
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Determine the installed theme versionOpen the theme's style.css file and locate the 'Version:' header in the CSS comment block at the top, or check theme.json for the 'version' field.Affected if The version is at or below the patched version (if known) or the vulnerable code pattern exists regardless of version.
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Locate the vulnerable unserialize() callSearch theme PHP files for the pattern 'unserialize(' using grep or a file search. Focus on files handling user input such as $_GET, $_POST, $_REQUEST, or AJAX handlers.Affected if Code contains 'unserialize()' that processes input from request parameters without sanitization.
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Verify user-controlled input reaches unserialize()Examine the code around the unserialize() call. Trace the parameter source - if it comes directly from $_GET, $_POST, or any request parameter without validation, the flaw is exploitable.Affected if The variable passed to unserialize() is derived from user input (e.g., $_REQUEST['theme'], $_GET['data']) without sanitization.
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Check for PHP Object Injection exploitabilityIf unserialize() with user input exists, verify there are no __wakeup, __destruct, or __toString magic methods in the theme or active plugins that could be chained for code execution.Affected if The theme or loaded classes contain exploitable magic methods that could be triggered via injected PHP objects.
If the ThemeREX musicplace theme is installed and contains unserialize() processing user input without validation, the environment is affected by this vulnerability.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpdate the theme to the latest patched version immediately; if no patch is available, disable the theme and replace with a currently supported theme, or implement input validation to prevent untrusted data from reaching PHP unserialize() calls.
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