CVE-2022-50972: woocommerce Code Injection

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-50972 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) Code Injection vulnerability in woocommerce. EPSS estimates a 1.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66.2% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 20-06-2026
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 15-07-2026
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

WooCommerce 7.1.0 contains a remote code execution vulnerability that allows attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code by injecting shell commands through the product-type parameter. Attackers can send requests to the class-wc-meta-box-product-images.php endpoint with unsanitized product-type values to write malicious PHP files to the web root.

• CWE-94Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment.