CVE-2023-40532 — Path traversal vulnerability in Welcart e-Commerce versions 2

Path traversal vulnerability in Welcart e-Commerce versions 2.7 to 2.8.21 allows a user with author or higher privilege to obtain partial information of the files on the web server.

01What is this vulnerability?

Path traversal vulnerability in Welcart e-Commerce versions 2.7 to 2.8.21 allows a user with author or higher privilege to obtain partial information of the files on the web server.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Collne Inc.	Welcart e	Commerce — versions 2.7 to 2.8.21

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-09-26T08:14:17.836Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-24T14:50:19.887Z

09References

• www.welcart.com — https://www.welcart.com/archives/20106.html
• jvn.jp — https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN97197972/