CVE-2015-3301
Directory traversal vulnerability in the TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart (aka The Professional WordPress eCommerce Plugin) plugin for WordPress before 1.3.9.3 allows remote administrators to read arbitrary files via a ..
Does this matter?
A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB, so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 9.1%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart (aka The Professional WordPress eCommerce Plugin) plugin for WordPress before 1.3.9.3 allows remote administrators to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the tcp_box_path parameter in the checkout_editor_settings page to wp-admin/admin.php.
- CVSS 2.0
- 4.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 9.10% probability · 95th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · first 29 April 2015
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-22
- Affected
- thecartpress/thecartpress ecommerce shopping cart
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 9.1% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/121439
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131673/WordPress-TheCartPress-1.3.9-XSS-Local-File-Inclusion.htmlExploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535396/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74395
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/thecartpress/changelog/Patch
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36860/Exploit
- https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23254Exploit
- http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/121439
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131673/WordPress-TheCartPress-1.3.9-XSS-Local-File-Inclusion.htmlExploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535396/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74395
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/thecartpress/changelog/Patch
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36860/Exploit
- https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23254Exploit
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.