TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart <= 1.5.3.6 - Directory Traversal

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVE CVE-2015-3301
CVSS Medium (4.9)
Publicly Published April 29, 2015
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab
Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart (aka The Professional WordPress eCommerce Plugin) plugin for WordPress before 1.3.9.3 allows remote administrators to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the tcp_box_path parameter in the checkout_editor_settings page to wp-admin/admin.php.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug thecartpress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.5.3.6
Patched Version
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