CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-16078

MediumCVSS 6.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
0.91%

56th percentile - higher than 56% of all known CVEs

Summary

The WCPOS – Point of Sale (POS) plugin for WooCommerce for WordPress up to version 1.9.8 is vulnerable to Directory Traversal via the 'type' parameter. Authenticated attackers with shop manager-level access or above can read arbitrary files on the server, including sensitive information. Successful exploitation requires supplying context=edit in the request, which bypasses content-stripping logic and returns the file verbatim in the REST API response.

Risk Assessment

An attacker with shop manager access can read confidential files such as WordPress configuration, credentials, or other sensitive data, potentially leading to privilege escalation or data breach.

Recommendation

Update the WCPOS – Point of Sale (POS) for WooCommerce plugin to a version newer than 1.9.8 that contains the fix.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

The WCPOS – Point of Sale (POS) plugin for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.8 via the 'type' parameter parameter. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with shop manager-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information. Successful exploitation requires supplying context=edit in the request, which bypasses the content-stripping logic in prepare_item_for_response() and returns the traversed file verbatim in the REST API response.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS