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CVE-2022-4140· NVD / CVE Program· CNA WPScan

Welcart e-Commerce < 2.8.5 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Access

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 31/100)

  • A ready-made attack module is public (Nuclei); exploiting it takes no special expertise.
  • Public proof-of-concept code exists (GitHub); there is no record of exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 2.9% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 87% of all records.
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
  • According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

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

HighCVSS 7.5 · v3.1—Proof of concept No fix recorded
Published
Jan 2, 2023
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
2.9% · 87th percentile

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Action score

31

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
30 / 40 · 7.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
1 / 30 · 2.9%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
proof of concept
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
welcartwelcart e-commerce

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • welcart welcart e-commercebefore 2.8.5

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (WPScan). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Unknown Welcart e-Commerce

    • before 2.8.5affected

Same product

welcart: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2022-41840WordPress Welcart eCommerce plugin <= 2.7.7 - Unauth. Directory Traversal vulnerability
    41Plan
  • CVE-2023-5952Welcart e-Commerce < 2.9.5 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection
    39Monitor
  • CVE-2020-28339The usc-e-shop (aka Collne Welcart e-Commerce) plugin before 1.9.36 for WordPress allows Object Injection because of usces_unserialize.
    36Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2022-3935Dec 12, 2022 · Welcart e-Commerce < 2.8.4 - Multiple Subscriber+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
    21Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2022-3946Dec 12, 2022 · Welcart e-Commerce < 2.8.4 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary Shipping Method Creation/Update/Deletion
    26Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2022-4236Jan 2, 2023 · Welcart e-Commerce < 2.8.5 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary File Access
    26Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

Proof of concept available

A public proof of concept or detection signature exists. Exploit knowledge is out there; don't delay patching.

Evidence

  • Nuclei detection template ×1
  • Proof-of-concept repository on GitHub ×1

Noroxi does not host or link to exploit code. Metasploit module names and Nuclei template ids are shown (names, not code); Exploit-DB entries and PoC repositories are given as counts only.

Public exploit evidence
SourceKindDate
Nuclei detection templateNuclei template CVE-2022-4140 —
Proof-of-concept repository on GitHubstars:12026-09-07

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

  1. Published
  2. First PoC+1343 d
  3. TodayOct 19, 2026+1386 d
EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
none
Availability
none
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-552 · Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvd-primary

Attack context

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Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

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