CVE-2022-4236: Welcart E-Commerce

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 via an AJAX action available to any authenticated users, which could allow users with a role as low as subscriber to read arbitrary files on the server.

Affected products

• Welcart Welcart E-Commerce: before 2.8.5 (fixed in 2.8.5)

Published 2023-01-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.