WordPress TheCartPress 1.5.3.6 Privilege Escalation Unauthenticated

WordPress TheCartPress 1.5.3.6 contains an unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability that allows attackers to create administrator accounts by submitting crafted requests to the AJAX handler. Attackers can send POST requests to the tcp_register_and_login_ajax action with tcp_role set to administrator to gain full administrative access without authentication.

The TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart (aka The Professional WordPress eCommerce Plugin) plugin for WordPress before 1.3.9.3 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive order detail information by leveraging a "broken authentication mechanism."

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart (aka The Professional WordPress eCommerce Plugin) plugin for WordPress before 1.3.9.3 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) billing_firstname, (2) billing_lastname, (3) billing_company, (4) billing_tax_id_number, (5) billing_city, (6) billing_street, (7) billing_street_2, (8) billing_postcode, (9) billing_telephone_1, (10) billing_telephone_2, (11) billing_fax, (12) shipping_firstname, (13) shipping_lastname, (14) shipping_company, (15) shipping_tax_id_number, (16) shipping_city, (17) shipping_street, (18) shipping_street_2, (19) shipping_postcode, (20) shipping_telephone_1, (21) shipping_telephone_2, or (22) shipping_fax parameter to shopping-cart/checkout/; the (23) search_by parameter in the admin/AddressesList.php page to wp-admin/admin.php; the (24) address_id, (25) address_name, (26) firstname, (27) lastname, (28) street, (29) city, (30) postcode, or (31) email parameter in the admin/AddressEdit.php page to wp-admin/admin.php; the (32) post_id or (33) rel_type parameter in the admin/AssignedCategoriesList.php page to wp-admin/admin.php; or the (34) post_type parameter in the admin/CustomFieldsList.php page to wp-admin/admin.php.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart (aka The Professional WordPress eCommerce Plugin) plugin for WordPress before 1.3.9.3 allows remote administrators to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the tcp_box_path parameter in the checkout_editor_settings page to wp-admin/admin.php.

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart (aka The Professional WordPress eCommerce Plugin) plugin for WordPress before 1.3.9.3 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct directory traversal attacks via the tcp_box_path parameter in the checkout_editor_settings page to wp-admin/admin.php.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin/OptionsPostsList.php in the TheCartPress plugin for WordPress before 1.1.6 before 2011-12-31 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the tcp_name_post_XXXXX parameter.