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Welcart e-Commerce < 2.8.5 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Access

Published Jan 2, 2023 · Updated Apr 10, 2025 · Assigned by WPScan

Category: Web / CMS

Description

The Welcart e-Commerce WordPress plugin before 2.8.5 does not validate user input before using it to output the content of a file, which could allow unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files on the server

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— Welcart e-Commerce < 2.8.5 2.8.5

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

GitHub 1 repository

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

Automated scanner template

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Source: projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates (MIT) — updated daily. Only links are listed.

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