CVE-2024-12253: Simple Ecommerce Shopping Cart Plugin- Sell products through Paypal <= 3.1.2 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Settings Upd...
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).
Classification
CVE ID: CVE-2024-12253
CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS Base Score: 5.4
Affected Products
Vendor: nshowketgmailcom
Product: Simple Ecommerce Shopping Cart Plugin- Sell products through Paypal
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)
EPSS Percentile: 16.18% (scored less or equal to compared to others)
EPSS Date: 2025-02-03 (when was this score calculated)
References
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1c6a1956-73aa-4ac3-ae1c-ef5f62bad718?source=cvehttps://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-e-commerce-shopping-cart/#developers