wpWax Product Carousel Slider & Grid Ultimate for WooCommerce Plugin path traversal

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in wpWax Product Carousel Slider & Grid Ultimate for WooCommerce Plugin up to 1.9.10 on WordPress. The affected element is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-44048. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in wpWax Product Carousel Slider & Grid Ultimate for WooCommerce Plugin up to 1.9.10 on WordPress. This issue affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation 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. The summary by CVE is:

Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program ('PHP Remote File Inclusion') vulnerability in wpWax Product Carousel Slider & Grid Ultimate for WooCommerce woo-product-carousel-slider-and-grid-ultimate.This issue affects Product Carousel Slider & Grid Ultimate for WooCommerce: from n/a through <= 1.9.10.

The weakness was presented by João Pedro Soares De Alcântara. The advisory is shared at patchstack.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-44048 since 08/18/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• E-Commerce Management Software

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• wpWax

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• Product Carousel Slider & Grid Ultimate for WooCommerce Plugin

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• 1.9.0
• 1.9.1
• 1.9.2
• 1.9.3
• 1.9.4
• 1.9.5
• 1.9.6
• 1.9.7
• 1.9.8
• 1.9.9
• 1.9.10

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