CVE-2015-2673

EasyCart 1.1.30 - 3.0.20 - Privilege Escalation

2015-02-26 00:00
rastating

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 3.0.21
Affected Plugin
Shopping Cart & eCommerce Store
Affected Version
1.1.30 – 3.0.20
CVSS
8.8High
Weakness type
CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
CVE
CVE-2015-2673
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At a glance

CVE-2015-2673 is a high-severity Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in the Shopping Cart & eCommerce Store WordPress plugin, affecting versions 1.1.30 – 3.0.20. It carries a CVSS score of 8.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). The issue is fixed in version 3.0.21; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2015, reported by rastating.

Vulnerability Overview

The ec_ajax_update_option and ec_ajax_clear_all_taxrates functions in inc/admin/admin_ajax_functions.php in the WP EasyCart plugin 1.1.30 through 3.0.20 for WordPress allow remote attackers to gain administrator privileges and execute arbitrary code via the option_name and option_value parameters.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.

CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management

Reaching this weakness in Shopping Cart & eCommerce Store 1.1.30 – 3.0.20 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Improper privilege management means the code lets an account end up with capabilities its role should not have.

It converts a low-privileged account into an administrative one, which makes every other restriction on the site irrelevant. For Shopping Cart & eCommerce Store the fix is 3.0.21: builds 1.1.30 – 3.0.20 are affected, anything from 3.0.21 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 3.0.21, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Shopping Cart & eCommerce Store 3.0.21 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-2673https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/91c147f9-8179-4ce0-8d17-87ea47cf08fehttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2673

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