# CVE-2022-0320: Essential Addons for Elementor < 5.0.5 - Unauthenticated LFI

> Unauthenticated attackers can exploit a Local File Inclusion vulnerability in the Essential Addons for Elementor plugin to read arbitrary files and potentially execute code.

- **Severity:** Critical 9.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 1 Feb 2022
- **Updated:** 2 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-j557-cfmg-mcjr

## What is CVE-2022-0320?

CVE-2022-0320 is a critical path traversal vulnerability in Wpdeveloper Essential Addons for Elementor, published on 1 Feb 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Essential Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin before 5.0.5 does not validate and sanitise some template data before it them in include statements, which could allow unauthenticated attackers to perform Local File Inclusion attack and read arbitrary files on the server, this could also lead to RCE via user uploaded files or other LFI to RCE techniques.

Weakness: CWE-22 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-0320?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Wpdeveloper Essential Addons for Elementor.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-0320?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-0320 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-0320 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-0320 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Wpdeveloper Essential Addons for Elementor

- [CVE-2023-32243](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-32243/): WordPress Essential Addons for Elementor Plugin 5.4.0-5.7.1 is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2021-4447](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-4447/): Essential Addons for Elementor <= 4.6.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Privilege Escalation (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2023-41955](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-41955/): WordPress Essential Addons for Elementor plugin <= 5.8.8 - Contributor+ Privilege Escalation vulnerability (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2024-3018](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-3018/): Essential Addons for Elementor <= 5.9.13 - Authenticated (Author+) PHP Object Injection via error_resetpassword (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2024-8979](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8979/): Information disclosure in Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets (high 8.0)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-0320 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-0320 is a critical path traversal vulnerability in Wpdeveloper Essential Addons for Elementor, published on 1 Feb 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-0320 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Wpdeveloper Essential Addons for Elementor. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0320/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0320/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0320
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0320
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-0320

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0320/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.