CVE-2026-16078
WCPOS <= 1.9.8 - Authenticated (Shop Manager+) Path Traversal to Arbitrary File Read via 'type' Parameter
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The WCPOS – Point of Sale (POS) plugin for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.8 via the 'type' 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. Successful exploitation requires supplying context=edit in the request, which bypasses the content-stripping logic in prepare_item_for_response() and returns the traversed file verbatim in the REST API response.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 6 days later
· 6 days later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.91% · top 40% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
kilbot · WCPOS – Point of Sale (POS) plugin for WooCommerce
- affected ≤ 1.9.8
References (6)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0148c70f-38e4-43d9-994e-f2b01dd168a1?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/woocommerce-pos/tags/1.9.7/includes/API/Templates_Controller.php#L446 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/woocommerce-pos/tags/1.9.7/includes/Templates.php#L481 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/woocommerce-pos/tags/1.9.7/includes/Templates.php#L445 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/woocommerce-pos/tags/1.9.7/includes/API/Templates_Controller.php#L1497 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3612715%40woocommerce-pos&new=3612715%40woocommerce-pos (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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