TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart up to 1.3.9.2 on WordPress shopping-cart/checkout/ post_type cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart up to 1.3.9.2 on WordPress. It has been rated as problematic. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file shopping-cart/checkout/. This manipulation of the argument post_type causes cross site scripting. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2015-3300. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. Moreover, an exploit is present. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart up to 1.3.9.2 on WordPress (E-Commerce Management Software) and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function of the file shopping-cart/checkout/. The manipulation of the argument post_type with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart (aka The Professional WordPress eCommerce Plugin) plugin for WordPress before 1.3.9.3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) billing_firstname, (2) billing_lastname, (3) billing_company, (4) billing_tax_id_number, (5) billing_city, (6) billing_street, (7) billing_street_2, (8) billing_postcode, (9) billing_telephone_1, (10) billing_telephone_2, (11) billing_fax, (12) shipping_firstname, (13) shipping_lastname, (14) shipping_company, (15) shipping_tax_id_number, (16) shipping_city, (17) shipping_street, (18) shipping_street_2, (19) shipping_postcode, (20) shipping_telephone_1, (21) shipping_telephone_2, (22) shipping_fax to shopping-cart/checkout/; (23) search_by parameter in the admin/AddressesList.php page to wp-admin/admin.php; (24) address_id, (25) address_name, (26) firstname, (27) lastname, (28) street, (29) city, (30) postcode, or (31) email parameter in the admin/AddressEdit.php page to wp-admin/admin.php; (32) post_id or (33) rel_type parameter in the admin/AssignedCategoriesList.php page to wp-admin/admin.php; or (34) post_type parameter in the admin/CustomFieldsList.php page to wp-admin/admin.php.

The weakness was disclosed 05/14/2015 (Website). The advisory is shared at wordpress.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2015-3300 since 04/13/2015. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details and also a public exploit are known. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

A public exploit has been developed by High-Tech Bridge SA and been published before and not just after the advisory. It is possible to download the exploit 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. 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 databases at Exploit-DB (36860), SecurityFocus (BID 74395†), OSVDB (121438†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-50200†). The entries VDB-75398, VDB-75405 and VDB-111170 are pretty similar. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-79 / CWE-94 / CWE-74
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Upgrade: TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart 1.3.9.3

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Advisory: 131673
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CVE: CVE-2015-3300 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2015-3300
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-75397
SecurityFocus: 74395 - WordPress TheCartPress Plugin Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
OSVDB: 121438
Vulnerability Center: 50200 - TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart WordPress Plugin <1.3.9.3 Multiple Remote XSS Vulnerabilities, Medium

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 05/15/2015 11:10
Updated: 03/06/2025 00:35
Changes: 05/15/2015 11:10 (62), 06/29/2017 07:12 (11), 05/17/2022 15:29 (3), 03/06/2025 00:35 (14)
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