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CVE-2023-5953: Welcart e-Commerce < 2.9.5 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary File Upload

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 35/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.47% (FIRST EPSS).
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: Unknown Welcart e-Commerce 2.9.5.
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Unknown Welcart e-Commerce 2.9.5 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

The Welcart e-Commerce WordPress plugin before 2.9.5 does not validate files to be uploaded, as well as does not have authorisation and CSRF in an AJAX action handling such upload. As a result, any authenticated users, such as subscriber could upload arbitrary files, such as PHP on the server

HighCVSS 8.8 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

Published: Dec 4, 2023
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.4% · 41th percentile
CWE: CWE-434

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 35 / 40 · 8.8 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.4%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: proof of concept
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

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Vendor	Product	CPE
welcart	welcart e-commerce	cpe:2.3:a:welcart:welcart_e-commerce

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

welcart welcart e-commercebefore 2.9.5

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (WPScan). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Unknown Welcart e-Commerce
- before 2.9.5affected · semver

Same product

welcart: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2022-41840WordPress Welcart eCommerce plugin <= 2.7.7 - Unauth. Directory Traversal vulnerability
41Plan
CVE-2023-5952Welcart e-Commerce < 2.9.5 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection
39Monitor
CVE-2020-28339The usc-e-shop (aka Collne Welcart e-Commerce) plugin before 1.9.36 for WordPress allows Object Injection because of usces_unserialize.
36Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2023-43614Sep 27, 2023 · Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Order Data Edit page of Welcart e-Commerce versions 2.7 to 2.8.21 allows a remote unauthenticated atta
24Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2023-5951Dec 4, 2023 · Welcart e-Commerce < 2.9.5 - Reflected XSS
24Monitor
Later →CVE-2023-6120Dec 9, 2023 · Welcart e-Commerce <= 2.9.6 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Directory Traversal
10Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
Unknown Welcart e-Commerce	2.9.5	Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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Benachifinder
WPScancoordinator

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

CVE-2023-4021968 days apartWelcart e-Commerce versions 2.7 to 2.8.21 allows a user with editor or higher privilege to upload an arbitrary file to an unauthorized direc
28Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).