CVE-2022-4140 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Welcart e-Commerce WordPress plugin before 2.8.5 does not validate user input before using it to output the content of a file, which could allow unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files on the server

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.56227.

Exploitation poc

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

Welcart e-Commerce

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 2.8.5

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:welcart:welcart_e-commerce:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

No data.

No data.

Project Subscriptions

Vendors	Products
Welcart Subscribe	Welcart E-commerce Subscribe

Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0d649a7e-3334-48f7-abca-fff0856e12c7

History

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Welcart Welcart welcart E-commerce
CPEs	cpe:2.3:a:collne:welcart_e-commerce::::::wordpress::*	cpe:2.3:a:welcart:welcart_e-commerce::::::wordpress::*
Vendors & Products	Collne Collne welcart E-commerce	Welcart Welcart welcart E-commerce

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-01-02T21:49:12.877Z

Updated: 2025-04-10T19:11:34.151Z

Reserved: 2022-11-25T09:56:19.096Z

Link: CVE-2022-4140

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:27:54.492Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-01-02T22:15:16.287

Modified: 2025-04-10T19:15:51.080

Link: CVE-2022-4140

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

No weakness.

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