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CVE-2024-12253: Simple Ecommerce Shopping Cart Plugin- Sell products through Paypal <= 3.1.2 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Settings Update / Data Access

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-12-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

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).

Affected products

• nshowketgmailcom Simple Ecommerce Shopping Cart Plugin- Sell products through Paypal: through 3.1.2

References

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-e-commerce-shopping-cart/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1c6a1956-73aa-4ac3-ae1c-ef5f62bad718?source=cve

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