CVE-2008-6877: Zen Cart

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in admin/includes/initsystem.php in Zen Cart 1.3.8 and 1.3.8a, when .htaccess is not supported, allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the loader_file parameter. NOTE: the vendor disputes this issue, stating "at worst, the use of this vulnerability will reveal some local file paths.

Affected products

• Zen Cart Zen Cart: version 1.3.8 only; version 1.3.8a only

Published 2009-07-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.