CVE-2023-5953 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Welcart e-Commerce WordPress plugin before 2.9.5 does not validate files to be uploaded, as well as does not have authorisation and CSRF in an AJAX action handling such upload. As a result, any authenticated users, such as subscriber could upload arbitrary files, such as PHP on the server

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00175.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Welcart	Welcart E-commerce

Configuration 1 [-]

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-58225	The Welcart e-Commerce WordPress plugin before 2.9.5 does not validate files to be uploaded, as well as does not have authorisation and CSRF in an AJAX action handling such upload. As a result, any authenticated users, such as subscriber could upload arbitrary files, such as PHP on the server

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6d29ba12-f14a-4cee-baae-a6049d83bce6

History

Thu, 29 May 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Welcart Welcart welcart E-commerce
CPEs	cpe:2.3:a:collne:welcart_e-commerce::::::wordpress::*	cpe:2.3:a:welcart:welcart_e-commerce::::::wordpress::*
Vendors & Products	Collne Collne welcart E-commerce	Welcart Welcart welcart E-commerce

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2023-12-04T21:28:03.020Z

Updated: 2025-05-29T13:53:03.148Z

Reserved: 2023-11-03T13:51:50.331Z

Link: CVE-2023-5953

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T08:14:25.121Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-12-04T22:15:08.170

Modified: 2025-05-29T14:15:33.693

Link: CVE-2023-5953

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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