WooCommerce <= 3.4.5 - WooCommerce File Deletion

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE	CVE-2018-20714
CVSS	High (7.2)
Publicly Published	November 6, 2018
Last Updated	January 22, 2024
Researcher	Simon Scannell, Karim El Ouerghemmi, Slavco Mihajloski

Description

The logging system of the Automattic WooCommerce plugin before 3.4.6 for WordPress is vulnerable to a File Deletion vulnerability. This allows deletion of woocommerce.php, which leads to certain privilege checks not being in place, and therefore a shop manager can escalate privileges to admin.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	woocommerce (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	Yes
Affected Version	<= 3.4.6
Patched Version	3.4.6

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