heCartPress, an e-commerce plug-in used on thousands of WordPress-based websites, has several high-risk vulnerabilities.

There are currently no fixes available for the flaws and, according to its developer, support for the plug-in will be discontinued on June 1st.

The vulnerabilities could allow attackers to “execute arbitrary PHP code, disclose sensitive data, and perform Cross-Site Scripting [XSS] attacks against users of WordPress installations with the vulnerable plug-in,” researchers from security firm High-Tech Bridge said in an advisory Wednesday.

There are factors that limit the exploitation of some of the flaws, but they still pose a significant risk.

For example, exploiting the vulnerability that allows PHP code execution requires the attacker to have administrative privileges on the WordPress website. However, an attacker could also trick the real administrator into running the exploit by visiting a malicious page, according to the High-Tech Bridge researchers. This is known as a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack.

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