CVE-2023-39525 PrestaShop vulnerable to path traversal

What is CVE-2023-39525?

CVE-2023-39525 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Prestashop Prestashop, published on 7 Aug 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

PrestaShop is an open source e-commerce web application. Prior to version 8.1.1, in the back office, files can be compromised using path traversal by replaying the import file deletion query with a specified file path that uses the traversal path. Version 8.1.1 contains a patch for this issue. There are no known workarounds.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-39525?

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

Products include Prestashop Prestashop.

How do I fix CVE-2023-39525?

Upgrade prestashop/prestashop to 8.1.1 or later.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2023-39525 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-39525 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Prestashop Prestashop

• CVE-2023-30839 PrestaShop vulnerable to SQL filter bypass leading to arbitrary write requests using "SQL Manager" Critical 10.0
• CVE-2008-5791 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2024-41651 Server-side request forgery in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-31181 Remote code execution in prestashop Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-3110 SQL injection in n/a Critical 9.8

All Prestashop Prestashop vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-m9r4-3fg7-pqm2.