CVE-2013-1656 Spree Improper Input Validation vulnerability

What is CVE-2013-1656?

CVE-2013-1656 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in n/a, published on 8 Mar 2013. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Spree Commerce 1.0.x through 1.3.2 allows remote authenticated administrators to instantiate arbitrary Ruby objects and execute arbitrary commands via the (1) payment_method parameter to core/app/controllers/spree/admin/payment_methods_controller.rb; and the (2) promotion_action parameter to promotion_actions_controller.rb, (3) promotion_rule parameter to promotion_rules_controller.rb, and (4) calculator_type parameter to promotions_controller.rb in promo/app/controllers/spree/admin/, related to unsafe use of the constantize function.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1656?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including spree. It affects 1 product.

Products include Spreecommerce Spree.

How do I fix CVE-2013-1656?

Upgrade spree to 2.0.0.rc1 or later.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2013-1656 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1656 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2011-10019 Spreecommerce < 0.60.2 Search Parameter RCE Critical 10.0
• CVE-2011-10026 Spreecommerce < 0.50.x API RCE Critical 9.3
• CVE-2026-25757 Unauthenticated Spree Commerce users can view completed guest orders by Order ID High 7.7
• CVE-2026-25758 Spree allows unauthenticated users can access all guest addresses High 7.7
• CVE-2020-26223 Authorization bypass in Spree High 7.7

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-jxx8-v83v-rhw3.