What is CVE-2023-40532?

CVE-2023-40532 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Collne Welcart, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2023-09-27.

How severe is CVE-2023-40532?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Collne Welcart

CVE-2023-40532

Path traversal vulnerability in Welcart e-Commerce versions 2.7 to 2.8.21 allows a user with author or higher privilege to obtain partial information of the files on the web server.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published 2023-09-27 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.007 (52.2th percentile), scored 2026-10-05.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 52nd percentile — 52.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.007 · change: +0.001

Affected products

Collne Welcart
Collne Inc. Welcart E-Commerce — versions versions 2.7 to 2.8.21

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

www.welcart.com/archives/20106.html (Release Notes)
jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN97197972/ (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-40532?: CVE-2023-40532 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Collne Welcart, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2023-09-27.
How severe is CVE-2023-40532?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.