CVE-2025-50847: CS-Cart CSRF in product comparison list

CVE-2025-50847 · Severity: medium · CVSS 6.5 · Published 2025-07-31

CS-Cart is a popular e-commerce platform used by businesses to manage online stores. A security flaw allows an attacker to trick a logged-in user into performing unintended actions, specifically adding items to their product comparison list without their consent. While this specific action has low direct impact, it demonstrates a lack of security controls that could potentially be used in more complex social engineering or profiling attacks against customers.

Technologies: Cs-Cart. Vendors: Cs-Cart.

Quick answers

Is CVE-2025-50847 exploited in the wild?
No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2025-50847 being exploited in the wild.
How severe is CVE-2025-50847?
Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 6.5, published 31 July 2025.
Which products and versions are affected?
Cs-Cart 4.18.3.
Is there a fix for CVE-2025-50847?
No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
How is CVE-2025-50847 attacked?
It is attacked over the network, in a web application.
Am I affected by CVE-2025-50847?
Check whether you run Cs-Cart at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

Technical details

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability exists in CS-Cart version 4.18.3 within the index.php endpoint. The application fails to properly validate CSRF tokens for state-changing requests related to the product comparison functionality. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by tricking an authenticated user into visiting a malicious webpage or clicking a link, which then executes a crafted HTTP request on the user's behalf. Successful exploitation allows the attacker to manipulate the user's comparison list, which can be used for user profiling or as a component in broader social engineering campaigns. Mitigation involves implementing robust CSRF token validation and applying SameSite cookie attributes.

Affected products

  • CS-Cart CS-Cart 4.18.3

Timeline

  • 2025-07-31: advisory: NVD publication date

References

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