# CVE-2023-1739: SourceCodester Simple and Beautiful Shopping Cart System upload.php unrestricted upload

> Attackers can upload malicious files to the shopping cart system, potentially leading to remote code execution.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 30 Mar 2023
- **Updated:** 2 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-h55g-mm6m-gw37

## What is CVE-2023-1739?

CVE-2023-1739 is a medium-severity vulnerability in SourceCodester Simple and Beautiful Shopping Cart System, published on 30 Mar 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A vulnerability was found in SourceCodester Simple and Beautiful Shopping Cart System 1.0 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file upload.php. The manipulation leads to unrestricted upload. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-224627.

Weakness: CWE-434 (Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-1739?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Simple and Beautiful Shopping Cart System Project Simple and Beautiful Shopping Cart System.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-1739?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-1739 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2023-1739 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-1739 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in SourceCodester Simple and Beautiful Shopping Cart System

- [CVE-2023-1941](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-1941/): SourceCodester Simple and Beautiful Shopping Cart System login.php sql injection (high 7.3)
- [CVE-2023-1940](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-1940/): SourceCodester Simple and Beautiful Shopping Cart System delete_user_query.php sql injection (medium 6.3)
- [CVE-2023-1558](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-1558/): Simple and Beautiful Shopping Cart System uploadera.php unrestricted upload (medium 6.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-1739 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-1739 is a medium-severity vulnerability in SourceCodester Simple and Beautiful Shopping Cart System, published on 30 Mar 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-1739 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: SourceCodester Simple and Beautiful Shopping Cart System. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-1739/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-1739/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-1739
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1739
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-1739

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-1739/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.