CVE-2015-3986 — Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart (aka The Professional WordPress eCommerce Plugin) plugin for WordPress before 1.3.9.3 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct directory traversal attacks via the tcp_box_path parameter in the checkout_editor_settings page to wp-admin/admin.php

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Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart (aka The Professional WordPress eCommerce Plugin) plugin for WordPress before 1.3.9.3 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct directory traversal attacks via the tcp_box_path parameter in the checkout_editor_settings page to wp-admin/admin.php

Published May 14, 2015

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 3.37%

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the TheCartPress eCommerce Shopping Cart (aka The Professional WordPress eCommerce Plugin) plugin for WordPress before 1.3.9.3 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct directory traversal attacks via the tcp_box_path parameter in the checkout_editor_settings page to wp-admin/admin.php.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

3.37% 0.03368

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.03368

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

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Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	3.37% (0.03368)	88.34th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	3.39% (0.03392)	87.22th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	1.79% (0.01793)	81.54th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 17, 2024	1.88% (0.01883)	88.16th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.55% (0.00548)	76.76th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.55% (0.00548)	73.94th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.32% (0.01319)	71.27th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 23, 2023	1.32% (0.01319)	71.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.32% (0.01319)	69.22th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.32% (0.01319)	44.98th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-352

CSRF

References (6)

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131673/WordPress-TheCartPress-1.3.9-XSS-Local-File-Inclusion.html
x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535396/100/0/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74395
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://wordpress.org/plugins/thecartpress/changelog/
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36860/
exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23254
x_refsource_MISCExploit

Link	Providers	Tags
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131673/WordPress-TheCartPress-1.3.9-XSS-Local-File-Inclusion.html		x_refsource_MISCExploit
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535396/100/0/threaded		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74395		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://wordpress.org/plugins/thecartpress/changelog/		x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36860/		exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23254		x_refsource_MISCExploit

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published May 14, 2015

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved May 14, 2015

Link CVE-2015-3986

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2015-3986

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2015-3986