CVE-2022-4298 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Wholesale Market WordPress plugin before 2.2.1 does not have authorisation check, as well as does not validate user input used to generate system path, allowing unauthenticated attackers to download arbitrary file from the server.

Published: 2023-01-02

Score: 9.8 Critical

EPSS: 55.7% High

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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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

Wholesale Market

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 2.2.1

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:cedcommerce:wholesale_market:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.55741.

Exploitation poc

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7485ad23-6ea4-4018-88b1-174312a0a478

History

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 19:15:00 +0000

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

Subscriptions

Cedcommerce Wholesale Market

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-01-02T21:49:31.907Z

Updated: 2025-04-10T18:40:15.104Z

Reserved: 2022-12-06T09:33:04.685Z

Link: CVE-2022-4298

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:34:50.063Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-01-02T22:15:16.873

Modified: 2025-04-10T19:15:52.410

Link: CVE-2022-4298

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

No weakness.

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