CVE-2021-24620: Simple-E-Commerce-Shopping-Cart Project Simple-E-Commerce-Shopping-Cart

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The WordPress Simple Ecommerce Shopping Cart Plugin- Sell products through Paypal plugin through 2.2.5 does not check for the uploaded Downloadable Digital product file, allowing any file, such as PHP to be uploaded by an administrator. Furthermore, as there is no CSRF in place, attackers could also make a logged admin upload a malicious PHP file, which would lead to RCE

Affected products

• Simple-E-Commerce-Shopping-Cart Project Simple-E-Commerce-Shopping-Cart: up to and including 2.2.5

Published 2021-09-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.