Tim Lawson

{
    "slug": "church-options",
    "pattern": "unserialize_after_remote_call",
    "kind": "builtin",
    "version": "1.0.3",
    "hit_count": 1,
    "first_hit": {
        "file": "lib/advanced-custom-fields/core/early-access.php",
        "line": 102,
        "snippet": "L98: $raw_body = wp_remote_retrieve_body($raw_response);  \u2192  L102: $obj = @unserialize( $raw_body );"
    },
    "explanation": "a remote HTTP fetch (`wp_remote_*` / `curl_exec`) is followed by `@unserialize` within the same file \u2014 classic PHP Object Injection C2 gadget. The error-suppressed form is the tell: legit code wants to know when deserialize fails; attackers suppress so malformed gadgets do not leak. A real finding regardless of author intent: any plugin that deserializes remote responses without validation is a latent RCE chain if the remote endpoint is ever compromised."
}