# CVE-2022-2439: Deserialization in Easy Digital Downloads – eCommerce Payments and Subscriptions made easy

> Authenticated administrators can exploit PHAR deserialization to execute arbitrary code via a POP chain in the Easy Digital Downloads plugin.

- **Severity:** High 7.2 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 24 Sep 2024
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-jjqr-925q-xr8x

## What is CVE-2022-2439?

CVE-2022-2439 is a high-severity unsafe deserialization vulnerability in Awesomemotive Easy Digital Downloads, published on 24 Sep 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-502 (Deserialization of Untrusted Data)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-2439?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Awesomemotive Easy Digital Downloads.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-2439?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-2439 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-2439 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-2439 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## 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-2023-51684](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-51684/): WordPress Easy Digital Downloads Plugin <= 3.2.5 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) (medium 6.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-2439 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-2439 is a high-severity unsafe deserialization vulnerability in Awesomemotive Easy Digital Downloads, published on 24 Sep 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-2439 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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-2022-2439/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2439/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-2439
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2439
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-2439

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2439/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.