CVE-2022-2439
Easy Digital Downloads – Simple eCommerce for Selling Digital Files <= 3.3.3 - Authenticated (Admin+) PHAR Deserialization
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Published
- 19 months later
· 19 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.69% · top 47% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Weakness
Affected products
smub · Easy Digital Downloads – eCommerce Payments and Subscriptions made easy
- affected ≤ 3.3.3
References (3)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/644c8702-08ad-4048-ae91-041f1771f1dc?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3154854/easy-digital-downloads/tags/3.3.4/includes/admin/import/import-functions.php (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3154854/easy-digital-downloads/tags/3.3.4/src/Utils/FileSystem.php (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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