CVE-2015-3301

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-05-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

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.

Affected products

Thecartpress Ecommerce Shopping Cart: through 1.3.9

References

http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/121439
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131673/WordPress-TheCartPress-1.3.9-XSS-Local-File-Inclusion.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535396/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74395
https://wordpress.org/plugins/thecartpress/changelog/
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36860/
https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23254
http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/121439
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131673/WordPress-TheCartPress-1.3.9-XSS-Local-File-Inclusion.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535396/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74395
https://wordpress.org/plugins/thecartpress/changelog/

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