CVE-2023-47444 — An issue discovered in OpenCart 4

An issue discovered in OpenCart 4.0.0.0 to 4.0.2.3 allows authenticated backend users having common/security write privilege can write arbitrary untrusted data inside config.php and admin/config.php, resulting in remote code execution on the underlying server.

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue discovered in OpenCart 4.0.0.0 to 4.0.2.3 allows authenticated backend users having common/security write privilege can write arbitrary untrusted data inside config.php and admin/config.php, resulting in remote code execution on the underlying server.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

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: 2023-11-15T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-29T15:26:32.465Z

09References

• 0xbro.red — https://0xbro.red/disclosures/disclosed-vulnerabilities/opencart-cve-2023-47444/