# CVE-2024-3934: Mercado Pago payments for WooCommerce 7.3.0 - 7.6.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Download

> Authenticated attackers can exploit a path traversal vulnerability to download and read arbitrary files on the server, 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:** 20 Jul 2024
- **Updated:** 1 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-6mcq-3j8g-82cj

## What is CVE-2024-3934?

CVE-2024-3934 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in claudiosanches Mercado Pago payments for WooCommerce, published on 20 Jul 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Mercado Pago payments for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Path Traversal in versions 7.3.0 to 7.5.1 via the mercadopagoDownloadLog function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to download and read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information. The arbitrary file download was patched in 7.5.1, while the missing authorization was corrected in version 7.6.2.

Weakness: CWE-22 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-3934?


## How do I fix CVE-2024-3934?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-3934 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-3934 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-3934 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-3934 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-3934 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in claudiosanches Mercado Pago payments for WooCommerce, published on 20 Jul 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-3934 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: claudiosanches Mercado Pago payments for WooCommerce. 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-2024-3934/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-3934/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-3934
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-3934
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-3934

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-3934/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.