# CVE-2022-2798: Affiliates Manager < 2.9.14 - Affiliate CSV Injection

> Affiliates Manager plugin allows CSV injection via unsanitized affiliate data, potentially leading to code execution when admins export data.

- **Severity:** High 8.0 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 16 Sep 2022
- **Updated:** 3 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-j77h-m5qv-6jf7

## What is CVE-2022-2798?

CVE-2022-2798 is a high-severity vulnerability in Unknown Affiliates Manager, published on 16 Sep 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The Affiliates Manager WordPress plugin before 2.9.14 does not validate and sanitise the affiliate data, which could allow users registering as affiliate to perform CSV injection attacks against an admin exporting the data

Weakness: CWE-1236 (Improper Neutralization of Formula Elements in a CSV File)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-2798?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Wpaffiliatemanager Affiliates Manager.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-2798?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-2798 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-2798 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-2798 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Affiliates Manager

- [CVE-2019-15868](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-15868/): Cross-site request forgery in n/a (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2021-24844](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24844/): Affiliate Manager < 2.8.7 - Admin+ SQL injection (high 7.2)
- [CVE-2021-25078](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-25078/): Affiliates Manager < 2.9.0 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2023-28986](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-28986/): WordPress Affiliates Manager Plugin <= 2.9.20 is vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (medium 5.4)
- [CVE-2023-52148](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52148/): WordPress Affiliates Manager Plugin <= 2.9.30 is vulnerable to Sensitive Data Exposure (medium 5.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-2798 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-2798 is a high-severity vulnerability in Unknown Affiliates Manager, published on 16 Sep 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-2798 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown Affiliates Manager. 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-2022-2798/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2798/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-2798
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2798
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-2798

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2798/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.