Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-61997 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-61997 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-61997?
- Critical severity, with a CVSS score of 9.8, published 29 October 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Wordpress Legal Stone <= 1.2.11.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-61997?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Patchstack has issued a mitigation rule available to block exploitation attempts until an official patch is released. Immediately update the theme or contact your hosting provider if you cannot apply updates yourself.</anigation> </invoke> If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-61997 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a web application.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-61997?
- Check whether you run Wordpress Legal Stone at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
How to fix
Patchstack has issued a mitigation rule available to block exploitation attempts until an official patch is released. Immediately update the theme or contact your hosting provider if you cannot apply updates yourself.</anigation> </invoke>
Technical details
PHP object injection in the Legal Stone WordPress theme allows unauthenticated attackers to manipulate how the site processes serialized PHP objects, leading to remote code execution. The vulnerability is network-accessible with no authentication required, and can be triggered through malicious input to affected components. No official patch is currently available from the theme developer.
Affected products
- WordPress Legal Stone <= 1.2.11
Timeline
- 2026-02-09: disclosed
- 2026-10-12: advisory
- 2026-10-29: published