GHSA-2444-8gj8-6fmx — magento/community-edition
HIGHGHSA-2444-8gj8-6fmx is a high-severity (CVSS 7.5) CWE-91 vulnerability in magento/community-edition. A fix is available for magento/community-edition — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Magento Open Source allows XML Injection
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for GHSA-2444-8gj8-6fmx.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
GHSA-2444-8gj8-6fmx plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 379,145 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
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Description
Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.4-p2 (and earlier) and 2.4.5-p1 (and earlier) are affected by an XML Injection vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary file system read. An unauthenticated attacker can force the application to make arbitrary requests via injection of arbitrary URLs. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐘Packagist | magento/community-edition | ≥ 2.4.5-p1&&< 2.4.5-p2 | 2.4.5-p2composer require magento/community-edition:^2.4.5-p2 |
| 🐘Packagist | magento/community-edition | all versions | No fix |
| 🐘Packagist | magento/community-edition | ≥ 2.4.4-p1&&< 2.4.4-p3 | 2.4.4-p3composer require magento/community-edition:^2.4.4-p3 |
| 🐘Packagist | magento/community-edition | all versions | No fix |
| 🐘Packagist | magento/project-community-edition | all versions | No fix |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for magento/community-edition, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update magento/community-edition to 2.4.5-p2 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-2444-8gj8-6fmx is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like GHSA-2444-8gj8-6fmx can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to GHSA-2444-8gj8-6fmx. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is GHSA-2444-8gj8-6fmx in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds GHSA-2444-8gj8-6fmx across Packagist dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.