TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart up to 1.3.9.2 on WordPress wp-admin/admin.php tcp_box_path path traversal

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A vulnerability was found in TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart up to 1.3.9.2 on WordPress (E-Commerce Management Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the file wp-admin/admin.php. The manipulation of the argument tcp_box_path with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was presented 05/14/2015 (Website). The advisory is available at wordpress.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2015-3301 since 04/13/2015. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. The successful exploitation needs a simple authentication. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. This vulnerability is assigned to T1006 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

A public exploit has been developed by High-Tech Bridge SA and been published before and not just after the advisory. The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 15 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:wp-admin/admin.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 13135 (WordPress TheCartPress Plugin Multiple Cross-Site Scripting and Local File Inclusion Vulnerabilities).

Upgrading to version 1.3.9.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (36860).

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Class: Path traversal
CWE: CWE-22
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Author: High-Tech Bridge SA
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Upgrade: TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart 1.3.9.3

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Advisory: 131673
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2015-3301 (🔍)
Vulnerability Center: 50201 - TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart WordPress Plugin <1.3.9.3 Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability, Medium
SecurityFocus: 74395 - WordPress TheCartPress Plugin Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
OSVDB: 121439

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 05/15/2015 11:10
Updated: 05/17/2022 15:36
Changes: 05/15/2015 11:10 (63), 06/29/2017 07:13 (11), 05/17/2022 15:36 (3)
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