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Store Exporter CVE-2026-16777

| EUVDEUVD-2026-82758 MEDIUM
Path Traversal (CWE-22)
2026-09-18 Wordfence GHSA-qq4m-495r-qfhf
4.9
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: Wordfence
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Authenticate as shop manager
  2. Delivery
    Craft filename with traversal sequence
  3. Exploit
    Exporter reads arbitrary file path
  4. Execution
    Sensitive file contents returned
  5. Impact
    Harvest credentials/secrets for escalation

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V5 - File Handling Path canonicalization, traversal prevention
MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques across 2 tactics: Discovery, Collection

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 account with shop-manager-level access or above on a WordPress site running the Store Exporter (woocommerce-exporter) plugin version <= 2.8.0, which in turn presupposes WooCommerce is installed. Exploitation is limited by this privilege gate (PR:H) - an anonymous attacker cannot reach the vulnerable 'filename' export handler - and impact is confined to reading server-readable files (no write or code execution). No user interaction beyond the attacker's own request is needed.

Impact

This is a genuine but low-priority issue. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N = 4.9 Medium) is internally consistent with the description: network-reachable, low complexity, but gated behind shop-manager (or higher) privileges - a trusted WooCommerce store role, not an anonymous attacker. The impact is confidentiality-only (C:H, I:N, A:N), reflecting arbitrary file read with no write or availability effect. No EPSS score, no CISA KEV listing, and no public POC are present in the input - only a Wordfence threat-intel entry and the plugin's own source/changeset references. There is no SSVC decision data provided. The signals do not conflict: a moderate CVSS, high privilege requirement, and absence of exploitation evidence all point to a real-but-contained flaw rather than an urgent, widely-exploited one. The main residual risk is that a shop manager is a comparatively low-trust commerce role that can be held by staff or compromised via credential theft, and arbitrary file read (wp-config.php, DB credentials, secrets) can escalate to broader compromise.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker who holds or has compromised a shop-manager account on a WooCommerce store submits an export request with a crafted 'filename' parameter containing directory-traversal sequences (e.g. ../../../wp-config.php), causing the exporter to read and return the contents of an arbitrary server file. No public exploit code is identified at time of analysis, but the vulnerable source lines are cited in the plugin's public trac repository, lowering the bar to reconstruct the attack.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
No patch listed yet 0.7% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Sep 18, 2026

Arbitrary file read in the WordPress plugin Store Exporter (woocommerce-exporter) through version 2.8.0 allows an authenticated attacker holding shop-manager-level access or above to supply a crafted 'filename' parameter and retrieve the contents of any file readable by the web server. The traversal is confined to disclosure - there is no write, no code execution, and no path to privilege escalation beyond the account already required - and the high-privilege prerequisite (CVSS PR:H, score 4.9) keeps this a genuine but low-priority issue rather than an urgent one. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV; exploitation is only reachable from the plugin's export handler by a user who already holds elevated store-management rights.

RemediationAI

Vendor-released patch: not independently confirmed - the referenced WordPress.org changeset 3689535 for woocommerce-exporter (https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3689535%40woocommerce-exporter&new=3689535%40woocommerce-exporter) indicates an upstream fix has been committed, but no tagged release version above 2.8.0 is confirmed in the supplied data, so administrators should check the plugin's WordPress.org page and apply the first release newer than 2.8.0 before treating the issue as closed. If upgrading is not immediately possible, the most effective compensating control is to reduce the attack surface at the privilege gate: remove the shop_manager role (and any custom roles with equivalent WooCommerce management capabilities) from untrusted users, or strip the export-related capability from those roles with a role-editing plugin - the trade-off is that legitimate staff lose the ability to generate exports. Alternatively, deactivate Store Exporter entirely if exports are not operationally required, which eliminates the vulnerable handler at the cost of the export functionality. Because the flaw is a read-only traversal, host-level hardening also helps: run WordPress with a dedicated least-privilege OS/FPM user, tighten file permissions on wp-config.php and other credential files so the web user cannot read them, and move secrets out of files reachable by the web process. Logging and alerting on export download requests containing traversal sequences (../, encoded variants) provides detection coverage while the patch is being rolled out.

Affected VersionsENISA

Store Exporter – Export WooCommerce Products, Orders, Subscriptions, Customers 0 ≤2.8.0

Affected Packages

euvd store_exporter_export_woocommerce_products_orders_subscriptions_customers no fix

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

Checking this CVE against your own stacks and servers is part of the Basic plan and up.

Technical ContextAI · show details

The root cause is CWE-22 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory / Path Traversal) in the export download handling of the Store Exporter plugin, a WooCommerce-adjacent extension that generates CSV/XML exports of products, orders, subscriptions and customers. The vulnerable code paths are in includes/Abstracts/Abstract_Exporter.php (referenced lines 396, 418 and 1011) and includes/Classes/WP_Admin.php (line 325), where the user-supplied 'filename' parameter is used to resolve a file for streaming back to the client without adequate canonicalisation or directory confinement, so sequences such as ../ can escape the intended export directory. Because the handler executes inside WordPress with the web server's filesystem identity, anything the server process can read - wp-config.php with database credentials and salts, .env files, other plugins' configuration, or system files accessible to that user - is potentially exposed. The CPE cpe:2.3:a:jkohlbach:store_exporter_-_export_woocommerce_products,_orders,_subscriptions,_customers identifies the vendor as jkohlbach and the affected package across all versions up to and including 2.8.0; the plugin's own dependency on WooCommerce means an affected site is by definition running WooCommerce as well. The CVSS vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N confirms network reachability, no user interaction, unchanged scope, and a high-confidentiality/low-integrity/low-availability impact profile consistent with a pure disclosure bug gated behind high privileges.

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Severity by source

Vendor (Wordfence) PRIMARY 4.9 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
vuln.today AI 4.9 MEDIUM

Shop-manager role is a privileged trusted account so PR:H; network-reachable admin action with no user interaction; arbitrary file read yields confidentiality only, no integrity or availability impact.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (Wordfence).

CVSS VectorVendor: Wordfence

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
High
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

DescriptionCVE.org

The Store Exporter - Export WooCommerce Products, Orders, Subscriptions, Customers plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.0 via the 'filename' parameter parameter. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with shop manager-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.7%
Top 50% exploitable
Prevalence
Medium
popular WooCommerce data-export plugin, common on ecommerce sites
Data Quality
4 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.7%
Patch available No
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact· derived
Medium
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

25
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: +1
CVSS: +24
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Path traversal exploits occur when applications use user-controlled input to construct file system paths without proper validation.

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