CVE-2018-11494

Severity: high (CVSS 8.0 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-05-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

The "program extension upload" feature in OpenCart through 3.0.2.0 has a six-step process (upload, install, unzip, move, xml, remove) that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code if the remove step is skipped, because the attacker can discover a secret temporary directory name (containing 10 random digits) via a directory traversal attack involving language_info['code'].

Affected products

OpenCart: through 3.0.2.0

References

http://www.bigdiao.cc/2018/05/24/Opencart-v3-0-2-0/
http://www.bigdiao.cc/2018/05/24/Opencart-v3-0-2-0/

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