Summary
CVE-2026-65575 is an unauthenticated PHP Object Injection vulnerability in the Accalia WordPress theme by AncoraThemes, affecting all versions up to and including 1.5.3. It carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (Critical) and can be exploited remotely over the network without authentication or user interaction.
Technical details
- Root cause: Deserialization of untrusted data (CWE-502) within the theme, allowing attacker-controlled input to be unserialized into PHP objects.
- Trigger conditions: An unauthenticated attacker supplies crafted serialized data that the theme deserializes.
- Attack vector: Network (AV:N), low complexity, no privileges and no user interaction required.
- Impact: Object injection can lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, depending on the PHP object chains ("gadgets") available in the WordPress installation and its plugins.
Affected software
- Accalia WordPress theme (AncoraThemes) — all versions ≤ 1.5.3.
Severity
- CVSS v3.1 base score: 9.8 (Critical)
- Vector string:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Mitigation and recommended actions
- Immediate: Update the Accalia theme to a fixed release newer than 1.5.3 as soon as one is made available by the vendor.
- If no patch is available: Restrict or filter unauthenticated requests to the affected theme, deploy a web application firewall rule to block PHP object injection payloads (serialized data in request parameters), and remove or disable the theme if it is not required.
How IONIX identifies potentially affected assets
IONIX matches the following signals against data already collected when it crawled the asset; identifying the technology sends no request beyond that crawl.
- Raw HTTP response body:
/wp-content/themes/accalia/

