CVE-2022-50972

WooCommerce 7.1.0 contains a remote code execution vulnerability that allows attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code by injecting shell commands through the product-type parameter. Attackers can send requests to the class-wc-meta-box-product-images.php endpoint with unsanitized product-type values to write malicious PHP files to the web root.

CVSS 4.0

9.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS 3.1

9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 66% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-94

Published

2026-06-20

Modified

2026-10-06

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/51156
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/woocommerce-remote-code-execution-via-class-wc-meta-box-product-images-php

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