TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart (aka The Professional WordPress eCommerce Plugin): Cross-site scripting

TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart (aka The Professional WordPress eCommerce Plugin) is affected by cross-site scripting. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.

CVE / CNA score 4.3 CVSS · cve@mitre.org

NVD score 4.3 CVSS 2.0 · nvd@nist.gov

Component: TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart (aka The Professional WordPress eCommerce Plugin)
Plugin slug: thecartpress
Affected: See vendor advisory
Safe version: See mitigation notes
Published: May 14, 2015
Weakness: CWE-79 — Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

This CVE was published May 14, 2015 and is one of 5 known issues for this plugin.

What to do

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart (aka The Professional WordPress eCommerce Plugin) 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.

Source record

Technical description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart (aka The Professional WordPress eCommerce Plugin) plugin for WordPress before 1.3.9.3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) billing_firstname, (2) billing_lastname, (3) billing_company, (4) billing_tax_id_number, (5) billing_city, (6) billing_street, (7) billing_street_2, (8) billing_postcode, (9) billing_telephone_1, (10) billing_telephone_2, (11) billing_fax, (12) shipping_firstname, (13) shipping_lastname, (14) shipping_company, (15) shipping_tax_id_number, (16) shipping_city, (17) shipping_street, (18) shipping_street_2, (19) shipping_postcode, (20) shipping_telephone_1, (21) shipping_telephone_2, or (22) shipping_fax parameter to shopping-cart/checkout/; the (23) search_by parameter in the admin/AddressesList.php page to wp-admin/admin.php; the (24) address_id, (25) address_name, (26) firstname, (27) lastname, (28) street, (29) city, (30) postcode, or (31) email parameter in the admin/AddressEdit.php page to wp-admin/admin.php; the (32) post_id or (33) rel_type parameter in the admin/AssignedCategoriesList.php page to wp-admin/admin.php; or the (34) post_type parameter in the admin/CustomFieldsList.php page to wp-admin/admin.php.

NVD vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

References

Update, patch or deactivate.

Technical description

Primary and upstream sources