One of the changelog entries for the latest version of CartFlows is “Fix: Security issue fix & added user capability check.” Looking at the changes made in that version we found that there was a privilege escalation vulnerability in the plugin that allowed anyone logged in to WordPress to activate plugins, which could also be exploited through cross-site request forgery (CSRF). That has been fixed in the new version.

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This post provides insights on a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin CartFlows not discovered by us, where the discoverer hadn't provided the details needed for us to confirm the vulnerability while we were adding it to the data set for our service, so the rest of its contents are limited to subscribers of our service.

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