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CVE-2025-3874
WordPress Simple PayPal Shopping Cart <= 5.1.3 - Insecure Direct Object Reference
Medium6.5EPSS 0.41%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The WordPress Simple Shopping Cart plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 5.1.3 due to lack of randomization of a user controlled key. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to access customer shopping carts and edit product links, add or delete products, and discover coupon codes.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.41% · top 64% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected ≤ 5.1.3
References (9)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4fed59bf-885b-4a06-aff2-8e5ab5f83ba7?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-simple-paypal-shopping-cart/tags/5.1.2/includes/class-wpsc-cart.php#L68 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-simple-paypal-shopping-cart/tags/5.1.2/includes/class-wpsc-cart.php#L32 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-simple-paypal-shopping-cart/tags/5.1.2/wp_shopping_cart.php#L525 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-simple-paypal-shopping-cart/tags/5.1.2/wp_shopping_cart.php#L158 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-simple-paypal-shopping-cart/tags/5.1.2/wp_shopping_cart.php#L265 (opens in a new tab)
- https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/wp-shopping-cart (opens in a new tab)
- https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_generate_password/ (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3284572/ (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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