CVE-2022-4236 - Welcart e-Commerce < 2.8.5 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary File Access

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MEDIUM

Welcart e-Commerce < 2.8.5 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary File Access

Published Jan 2, 2023

6.5

MEDIUM

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 0.80%

Description

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 via an AJAX action available to any authenticated users, which could allow users with a role as low as subscriber to read arbitrary files on the server.

Affected products

Vendor n/a Product Welcart e-Commerce Default
unaffected
- Version
  0
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  <2.8.5

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

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

n/a

Welcart e-Commerce

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
0	affected	<2.8.5

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-552

References (1)

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/436d8894-dab8-41ea-8ed0-a3338aded635
exploitvdb-entrytechnical-descriptionThird Party Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/436d8894-dab8-41ea-8ed0-a3338aded635		exploitvdb-entrytechnical-descriptionThird Party Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner WPScan

Published Jan 2, 2023

Updated Apr 10, 2025

Reserved Nov 30, 2022

Link CVE-2022-4236

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated Apr 10, 2025

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2022-4236

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2022-4236