7.5

CVE-2022-4140: unknown welcart e-commerce

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighModified
Published 02-01-2023Last modified 10-04-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-4140 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in unknown welcart e-commerce. EPSS estimates a 2.97% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded. Fixed in 2.8.5.

Overall risk
41/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
2.97%
0%100%
Low · +0.03 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1reference

Timeline

  1. 02-01-2023
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 10-04-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

2.97%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

87%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.03 pp

From 2.94% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
2.97%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (wpscan.com)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Unknown1 product
Welcart1 product
Wordpress1 product
  • usc-e-shop≥ 2.6.10, ≤ 2.8.4 (fixed in 2.8.5)

3 vendors · 3 products

References

2 links