Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate as Author-level user
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ExploitSend crafted SKU request for another owner's product
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ExecutionCapability check not tied to target product
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ImpactRead cost prices and tamper with prices/stock catalog-wide
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization logic validation
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Requires an authenticated WordPress account with the Author role or higher on a site running the Welcart e-Commerce plugin before 2.12.6. The specific trigger is that the plugin's capability check for SKU operations is not tied to the product being edited, so any such authenticated user can read, modify, create, delete and re-order SKU data (prices, confidential cost prices, stock levels) of products owned by other users. Limiting factors: exploitation depends on the attacker first obtaining an Author-level-or-higher account (sites without open Author self-registration materially reduce exposure); no administrative access and no user interaction are required, and the attack is over the network against the plugin's default behavior once that account exists. |
| Impact | All quantitative signals point to this being a genuine but low-priority issue rather than an urgent threat. The official CVSS base score is only 3.8 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N), EPSS is 0.15% (4th percentile - very low predicted exploitation probability), the vulnerability is NOT on CISA KEV, no public exploit is identified, and the vuln.today Decision label is 'monitor'. These signals are consistent with each other, so the appropriate posture is scheduled patching, not emergency response. One internal inconsistency should be flagged: the official vector uses PR:H (administrative privilege), yet the description states exploitation requires only 'Author-level access or higher', which in WordPress is a low-privilege, non-administrative role. This suggests the real privilege barrier is lower than PR:H implies, so the practical severity is likely somewhat higher than 3.8 - verify the privilege model with the vendor/WPScan advisory. No SSVC exploitation/automatable/technical-impact decision points were supplied, so that framework cannot be independently applied here. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker who already holds an Author-level (or higher) account on a WordPress site running Welcart e-Commerce before 2.12.6 sends SKU edit/create/delete/reorder requests targeting products they do not own. Because the plugin's capability check is not bound to the specific product, the server processes the request and the attacker reads confidential cost prices or tampers with prices and stock levels across the catalog. No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis, so an attacker would need to craft the requests from knowledge of the advisory. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 28, 2026
Broken access control in the Welcart e-Commerce WordPress plugin before 2.12.6 lets any authenticated user holding the Author role or higher read, modify, create, delete and re-order SKU data - prices, confidential cost prices and stock levels - for products belonging to other users, because the plugin's capability check is not tied to the specific product being edited. Successful abuse requires only a low-privileged network-reachable account and no user interaction, so the confidentiality and integrity impact on store pricing and inventory data is real, but it is bounded: no administrative access is gained and no code execution or outage results. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, there is no CISA KEV listing, and EPSS is 0.15% (4th percentile), which aligns with the monitor-level priority assigned to this issue.
RemediationAI
Upgrade the Welcart e-Commerce plugin to version 2.12.6 or later, which is the vendor-released patch and the complete fix for the missing product-level authorization check; the fix is recorded as available from the vendor, and the WPScan advisory at https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/73a9a609-b647-4872-96d3-b066df0870ee/ should be consulted for the vendor's own upgrade guidance. Until the update is applied, the most effective compensating measure is to tighten account provisioning on the affected store: sites that do not offer open Author-level self-registration, and that review existing Author-and-above accounts for legitimacy, materially reduce exposure, because the flaw requires an already-authenticated user at that role. The trade-off is administrative overhead in user-account review and the need to re-grant roles deliberately rather than through open registration. Any interim review of product SKU, price, cost-price and stock records for unexpected changes is also worthwhile given the integrity impact, but such monitoring is detection rather than prevention and does not substitute for installing 2.12.6.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The affected component is the Welcart e-Commerce plugin for WordPress, an e-commerce/storefront extension that stores per-product SKU records including sale prices, confidential cost prices and stock levels. The root cause maps to CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization): the plugin performs a WordPress capability check for SKU operations but never ties that check to the product identifier being acted upon, so a user who holds a generic editing capability at Author level or above passes the gate for SKU records attached to products they do not own. In WordPress terms, this is a classic missing object-level (per-record) authorization check rather than a flaw in authentication itself - the wpscan tagging as an authentication bypass overstates the mechanism, since the attacker must already hold a valid account and the check that fails is ownership of the target object. The vendor correction in 2.12.6 constrains those SKU operations to the product being edited. Note the scoring discrepancy across sources: NVD publishes CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N (3.8), while the assessed vector uses PR:L, reflecting that Author-level - not administrative - access is sufficient; the practical exposure therefore tracks the assessed low-privilege vector rather than the stricter NVD privilege requirement. The precise request flow or endpoint used to reach the SKU handlers is not described in the available sources.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Author is a low-privilege, non-admin role, so PR:L (official PR:H overstates); AC:L web request; confidential cost-price read C:L; cross-product SKU tampering I:L; no availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (wpscan).
CVSS VectorVendor: wpscan
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
The Welcart e-Commerce WordPress plugin before 2.12.6 does not properly verify authorization against the targeted product before processing SKU changes, because its capability check is not tied to the product being edited, allowing any authenticated user with Author-level access or higher to read, modify, create, delete and re-order the SKU data (including prices, confidential cost prices and stock levels) of any product, including those belonging to other users.
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EUVD-2026-111718
GHSA-3rmh-w7g6-4jgh
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