# CVE-2022-33900: WordPress Easy Digital Downloads plugin <= 3.0.1 - PHP Object Injection vulnerability

> An attacker can exploit PHP object injection in the Easy Digital Downloads plugin to potentially execute arbitrary code on the WordPress site.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.1 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 22 Aug 2022
- **Updated:** 28 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-262j-qv9g-9xhx

## What is CVE-2022-33900?

CVE-2022-33900 is a medium-severity unsafe deserialization vulnerability in Awesomemotive Easy Digital Downloads, published on 22 Aug 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

PHP Object Injection vulnerability in Easy Digital Downloads plugin <= 3.0.1 at WordPress.

Weakness: CWE-502 (Deserialization of Untrusted Data)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-33900?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Awesomemotive Easy Digital Downloads.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-33900?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-33900 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-33900 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-33900 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-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-2022-33900 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-33900 is a medium-severity unsafe deserialization vulnerability in Awesomemotive Easy Digital Downloads, published on 22 Aug 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-33900 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-2022-33900/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-33900/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-33900
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-33900
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-33900

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-33900/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.