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

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVE CVE-2023-6120
CVSS Medium (4.1)
Publicly Published December 8, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Marco Wotschka
Description

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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug usc-e-shop (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.9.6
Patched Version
  • 2.9.7
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