Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affecting prestashop/prestashop package, versions <8.2.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.09% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-PRESTASHOPPRESTASHOP-12428008
  • published3 Sept 2025
  • disclosed30 Jul 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Jul 2025

CVE-2025-25691  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-502  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade prestashop/prestashop to version 8.2.1 or higher.

Overview

prestashop/prestashop is an Open Source e-commerce platform, committed to providing the best shopping cart experience for both merchants and customers.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Deserialization of Untrusted Data in src/Core/Addon/Theme/ThemeManager.php's unprotected use of createFileFromUrl(). An attacker can execute arbitrary code by sending a POST request containing a malicious URL using the phar:// scheme.

Details

Serialization is a process of converting an object into a sequence of bytes which can be persisted to a disk or database or can be sent through streams. The reverse process of creating object from sequence of bytes is called deserialization. Serialization is commonly used for communication (sharing objects between multiple hosts) and persistence (store the object state in a file or a database). It is an integral part of popular protocols like Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Java Management Extension (JMX), Java Messaging System (JMS), Action Message Format (AMF), Java Server Faces (JSF) ViewState, etc.

Deserialization of untrusted data (CWE-502) is when the application deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid, thus allowing the attacker to control the state or the flow of the execution.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1