Wholesale Market for WooCommerce < 2.0.0 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Arbitrary Log File Download
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.0.0
- Affected Plugin
- Wholesale Market for WooCommerce
- Affected Version
< 2.0.0- CVSS
- 4.1Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
- CVE
CVE-2022-4109
At a glance
CVE-2022-4109 is a medium-severity Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in the Wholesale Market for WooCommerce WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 2.0.0. It carries a CVSS score of 4.1 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Administrator level or above. The issue is fixed in version 2.0.0; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed December 2022, reported by WPScanTeam.
Vulnerability Overview
The Wholesale Market for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary Log File Download in versions below 2.0.0. This due to the plugin not verifying that paths accessed belong to the site they are accessed from. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to download log files from the vulnerable service's server even if they belong to another site.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user.
CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Reaching this weakness in Wholesale Market for WooCommerce < 2.0.0 takes an account at Administrator level or above. Path traversal happens when user-controlled text is used to build a filesystem path without being constrained to an intended directory, so sequences like ../ walk the resolved path somewhere else.
Depending on the operation, it means reading files outside the intended folder — wp-config.php being the usual target — or writing to and deleting paths the web server can touch. For Wholesale Market for WooCommerce the fix is 2.0.0: builds < 2.0.0 are affected, anything from 2.0.0 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2.0.0, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
An attacker needs Administrator access first, so the firewall sees the attempt as traffic from a logged-in account: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Wholesale Market for WooCommerce 2.0.0 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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