Unauthorized Access to Sell Products through Paypal Plugin for WordPress Due to Missing Capability Check
CVE-2024-12253

5.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Simple Ecommerce Shopping Cart Plugin- Sell Products Through Paypal
Vendor
CVE Published:
7 December 2024

Summary

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).

Affected Version(s)

Simple Ecommerce Shopping Cart Plugin- Sell products through Paypal * <= 3.1.2

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-e-commerce-shopping-...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Lucio Sá
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