# CVE-2024-12861: Path traversal in W2S – Migrate WooCommerce to Shopify

> Authenticated subscribers can read arbitrary server files via an AJAX action, potentially exposing sensitive information.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **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 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-fgc5-6vqg-25q8

## What is CVE-2024-12861?

CVE-2024-12861 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in villatheme W2S – Migrate WooCommerce to Shopify, published on 30 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The W2S – Migrate WooCommerce to Shopify plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Read in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.1 via the 'viw2s_view_log' AJAX action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.

Weakness: CWE-73 (External Control of File Name or Path)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-12861?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Villatheme W2s.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-12861?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-12861 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-12861 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12861 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-12861 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-12861 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in villatheme W2S – Migrate WooCommerce to Shopify, published on 30 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-12861 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: villatheme W2S – Migrate WooCommerce to Shopify. 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-2024-12861/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12861/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12861
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12861
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-12861

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12861/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.