# CVE-2022-4109: Wholesale Market for WooCommerce < 2.0.0 - Admin+ Arbitrary Log Download

> Administrators can exploit a path traversal flaw to download arbitrary log files from the server, bypassing intended access restrictions.

- **Severity:** Low 2.7 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 2 Jan 2023
- **Updated:** 10 Apr 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-qm6m-q7rm-4grf

## What is CVE-2022-4109?

CVE-2022-4109 is a low-severity path traversal vulnerability in Unknown Wholesale Market for WooCommerce, published on 2 Jan 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Wholesale Market for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 2.0.0 does not validate user input against path traversal attacks, allowing high privilege users such as admin to download arbitrary logs from the server even when they should not be able to (for example in multisite)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-4109?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Cedcommerce Wholesale Market for Woocommerce.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-4109?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-4109 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-4109 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2022-4109 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Wholesale Market for WooCommerce

- [CVE-2022-4106](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-4106/): Wholesale Market for WooCommerce < 1.0.7 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Download (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2022-4108](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-4108/): Wholesale Market for WooCommerce < 1.0.8 - Admin+ Arbitrary File Download (medium 4.9)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-4109 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-4109 is a low-severity path traversal vulnerability in Unknown Wholesale Market for WooCommerce, published on 2 Jan 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2022-4109 exists.

Affected product: Unknown Wholesale Market for WooCommerce. 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-2022-4109/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-4109/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-4109
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4109
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-4109

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-4109/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.