# CVE-2022-2387: Easy Digital Downloads < 3.0 - Arbitrary Post Deletion via CSRF

> Attackers can trick logged-in admins into deleting arbitrary posts via CSRF in the Easy Digital Downloads plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 7 Nov 2022
- **Updated:** 5 May 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-pr89-cv9w-3vj3

## What is CVE-2022-2387?

CVE-2022-2387 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Awesomemotive Easy Digital Downloads, published on 7 Nov 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The Easy Digital Downloads WordPress plugin before 3.0 does not have CSRF check in place when deleting payment history, and does not ensure that the post to be deleted is actually a payment history. As a result, attackers could make a logged in admin delete arbitrary post via a CSRF attack

Weakness: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-2387?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Awesomemotive Easy Digital Downloads.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-2387?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-2387 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-2387 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2022-2387 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Awesomemotive Easy Digital Downloads

- [CVE-2023-30869](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-30869/): WordPress Easy Digital Downloads Plugin 3.1-3.1.1.4.1 is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2022-3600](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-3600/): Easy Digital Downloads < 3.1.0.2 - Unauthenticated CSV Injection (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2015-9324](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-9324/): SQL injection in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-5057](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5057/): WordPress Easy Digital Downloads plugin <= 3.2.12 - SQL Injection vulnerability (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2022-2439](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2439/): Deserialization in Easy Digital Downloads – eCommerce Payments and Subscriptions made easy (high 7.2)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-2387 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-2387 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Awesomemotive Easy Digital Downloads, published on 7 Nov 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2022-2387 exists.

Affected product: Awesomemotive Easy Digital Downloads. 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-2022-2387/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2387/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-2387
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2387
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-2387

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2387/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.