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Welcart e-Commerce <= 2.9.6 — Authenticated (Administrator+) Directory Traversal

CVE-2023-6120Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤2.9.6Update to 2.9.7 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
Medium4.1
CVSS
4.1
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:H Privileges required
High
UI:N User interaction
None
S:C Scope
Changed
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-22 Path Traversal
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

Welcart e-Commerce usc-e-shop

  1. Affected≤ 2.9.6
  2. Patched in2.9.7

Update to 2.9.7 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 2.9.6. Version 2.9.7 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Welcart e-Commerce.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 2.9.7, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Welcart e-Commerce to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Marco Wotschka.

The Welcart e-Commerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.6 via the upload_certificate_file function. This makes it possible for administrators to upload .pem or .crt files to arbitrary locations on the server.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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≤2.12.6Update to 2.12.7
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Medium5.3Account Takeover via Insecure Direct Object Reference to Unauthenticated User Input via 'member[ID]' Parameter
≤2.12.5Update to 2.12.6
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High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'gid' Parameter
≤2.12.5Update to 2.12.6
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Medium4.3Missing Authorization
<2.12.6Update to 2.12.6
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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 4.1

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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