Simple Ecommerce Shopping Cart Plugin up to 3.1.2 on WordPress Setting authorization

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Simple Ecommerce Shopping Cart Plugin up to 3.1.2 on WordPress. The affected element is an unknown function of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation leads to authorization. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-12253. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Simple Ecommerce Shopping Cart Plugin up to 3.1.2 on WordPress and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-862. The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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).

The advisory is shared at wordfence.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-12253 since 12/05/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 12/07/2024).

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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• Simple Ecommerce Shopping Cart Plugin

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• 3.1.0
• 3.1.1
• 3.1.2

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