Wholesale Market <= 2.2.0 - Information Disclosure via Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Download
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.2.1
- Affected Plugin
- Wholesale Market
- Affected Version
<= 2.2.0- CVSS
- 7.5High
- Weakness type
- CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
- CVE
CVE-2022-4298
At a glance
CVE-2022-4298 is a high-severity Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in the Wholesale Market WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.2.0. It carries a CVSS score of 7.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 2.2.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed December 2022, reported by cydave.
Vulnerability Overview
The Wholesale Market plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file download due to missing file name validation via the ced_cwsm_log_download parameter in versions up to, and including, 2.2.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to download arbitrary files on the affected site's server leading to Information Disclosure.
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 privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality.
CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Reaching this weakness in Wholesale Market <= 2.2.0 takes no account at all. 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 the fix is 2.2.1: builds <= 2.2.0 are affected, anything from 2.2.1 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2.2.1, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
Requests carrying this pattern arrive without a session, so nothing upstream of the firewall gets a chance to reject them: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Wholesale Market 2.2.1 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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Other vulnerabilities in Wholesale Market
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