Simple Ecommerce Shopping Cart Plugin- Sell products through Paypal: A security weakness
Simple Ecommerce Shopping Cart Plugin- Sell products through Paypal is affected by a security weakness. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Simple Ecommerce Shopping Cart Plugin- Sell products through Paypal
- Plugin slug
simple-e-commerce-shopping-cart- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Dec 07, 2024
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Dec 07, 2024 and is one of 3 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Simple Ecommerce Shopping Cart Plugin- Sell products through Paypal to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Simple Ecommerce Shopping Cart Plugin- Sell products through Paypal plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the 'save_settings', 'export_csv', and 'simpleecommcart-action' actions in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update the plugins settings and retrieve order and log data (which is also accessible to unauthenticated users).
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N