Simple Ecommerce Shopping Cart Plugin- Sell products through Paypal <= 3.1.2 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Settings Update / Data Access

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-12253
CVSS Medium (5.4)
Publicly Published December 6, 2024
Last Updated December 7, 2024
Researcher Lucio Sá
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).

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug simple-e-commerce-shopping-cart (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 3.1.2
Patched Version
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