Arbitrary File Upload Affecting magento/community-edition package, versions <2.3.7-p1>=2.4.0, <2.4.2-p2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Social Trends
EPSS
2.87% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-MAGENTOCOMMUNITYEDITION-13863535
  • published9 Nov 2025
  • disclosed24 May 2022
  • creditZb3

Introduced: 24 May 2022

CVE-2021-36040  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-434  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade magento/community-edition to version 2.3.7-p1, 2.4.2-p2 or higher.

Overview

magento/community-edition is a modern cloud eCommerce platform.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Upload due to improper input validation when uploading a file. An attacker with administrative privileges can execute arbitrary code on the server by uploading a specially crafted file that bypasses file extension restrictions.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1