Easy Digital Downloads – Simple eCommerce for Selling Digital Files <= 3.3.3 — Authenticated (Admin+) PHAR Deserialization
CVE-2022-2439Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤3.3.3Update to 3.3.4 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High7.2
- CVSS
- 7.2CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:HPrivileges required- High
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Weakness
- CWE-502 PHP Object Injection
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Easy Digital Downloads – eCommerce Payments and Subscriptions made easy easy-digital-downloads
- Affected≤ 3.3.3
- Patched in3.3.4
Update to 3.3.4 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 3.3.3. Version 3.3.4 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Easy Digital Downloads – eCommerce Payments and Subscriptions made easy.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 3.3.4, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Easy Digital Downloads – eCommerce Payments and Subscriptions made easy to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Rasoul Jahanshahi.
The Easy Digital Downloads – Simple eCommerce for Selling Digital Files plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted input via the 'upload[file]' parameter in versions up to, and including 3.3.3. This makes it possible for authenticated administrative users to call files using a PHAR wrapper, that will deserialize and call arbitrary PHP Objects that can be used to perform a variety of malicious actions granted a POP chain is also present.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 7.2
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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