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CVE-2022-4140: Welcart e-Commerce < 2.8.5 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Access

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-01-02 · updated 2026-06-17

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, which could allow unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files on the server

Affected products

• Welcart e-Commerce: before 2.8.5 — fixed in 2.8.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Welcart e-Commerce 2.8.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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

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