Is CVE-2022-50972 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2022-50972 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2022-50972?

CVE-2022-50972 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2022-50972?

CVE-2022-50972 has an EPSS score of 0.63% (45th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2022-50972

CRITICAL

9.8

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

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.

CWE-94Code Injection

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

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

Exploit Intelligence

0.63%probability of exploitation in 30 days

45thpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 45% of all known CVEs.

References

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-06-22.