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CVE-2026-118070VulnerabilityPublished

The Welcart e-Commerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'gid' parameter in

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Authoritative record:CVE-2026-118070· High 7.2

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.2 High.

Data as of 31 Oct 2026, 10:50 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
7.2High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

Thin evidence

One scorer or none
CVSS scores by source
CNA (Wordfence)CVSS 3.17.2
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 31 Oct 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 30 Oct 2026.

What to do

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
uscnanbuWelcart e-CommerceAffected
  • <=2.12.5
Fixed in–

AI-suggested

Until a fix is available, restrict access to the WordPress admin panel to trusted users only and monitor for suspicious activity. Avoid processing untrusted ROBOT PAYMENT browser-return requests or sanitize inputs at the web application firewall level if possible.

Description

The Welcart e-Commerce plugin for WordPress versions up to and including 2.12.5 is vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting (XSS) via the 'gid' parameter. This vulnerability arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping, allowing unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious scripts. The attack involves forging a ROBOT PAYMENT browser-return request to store a malicious 'gid' value in order metadata, which executes when an administrator views the order in the WordPress admin panel.

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