CVE-2026-27082
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 Love Story lovestory allows Object Injection.This issue affects Love Story: from n/a through <= 1.3.12.
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 PHP Object Injection vulnerability exists in the ThemeREX Love Story WordPress theme due to unsafe deserialization of untrusted data. Attackers can exploit this by sending crafted serialized PHP objects to vulnerable endpoints, potentially leading to remote code execution if suitable gadget chains exist in the application.
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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 Love Story theme versionNavigate to Appearance > Themes in WordPress admin, locate the Love Story theme, and note the version displayed. Alternatively, check the style.css file in wp-content/themes/love-story/ for the 'Version:' header.Affected if Installed version is 1.3.12 or lower, or if version cannot be determined and the theme is in use.
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Confirm theme is activeIn WordPress admin, go to Appearance > Themes and verify whether Love Story is the currently active theme or if it is installed but not activated.Affected if The Love Story theme is active on the WordPress site.
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Check for vulnerable deserialization endpointsReview the theme's PHP files, particularly any AJAX handlers or form processing code that may handle serialized data. Look for calls to unserialize() function within the theme files in wp-content/themes/love-story/.Affected if Code contains unserialize() calls processing untrusted input without validation.
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Review access logs for serialized dataExamine web server access logs (Apache/nginx) for POST requests to theme-related endpoints containing PHP serialized object patterns (e.g., O:*, a:*, s:*) in the request body or parameters.Affected if Requests with serialized PHP objects are found targeting theme endpoints.
A user is affected if the Love Story theme version is 1.3.12 or lower and the theme is actively installed on the WordPress instance, particularly if the vulnerable deserialization code handles user-supplied data.
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 Love Story theme to the latest version beyond 1.3.12, or remove the theme entirely if not needed. If immediate update is not possible, disable the theme and investigate logs for exploitation attempts.
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