New Zen Cart Vulnerability; Thousands of Online Retail Sites in Jeopardy

Pete Prestipino
by Pete Prestipino 27 Nov, 2015
New Zen Cart Vulnerability; Thousands of Online Retail Sites in Jeopardy

Security firm High-Tech Bridge issued a warning to retailers and shoppers about a critical vulnerability in the Zen Cart Shopping management system. 

The security flaw could allow remote attackers to infiltrate web servers and gain access to customer data. 

Servers running Zen Cart are also at risk of malware, meaning that hundreds of thousands of ecommerce sites pose a potential danger. That's not good for ecommerce merchants using the platform with the holiday shopping season in full force.

Technical details of the vulnerability are not yet being made public, but having notified Zen Cart of the issue High-Tech Bridge says the date of full public disclosure is 16 December.

Zen Cart was quick to issue a patch that it announced on Twitter. 

Pete Prestipino
Pete Prestipino
Digital marketing executive with proven experience in all aspects of search engine optimization (SEO), performance-based advertising, consumer-generated/social media, email marketing, lead generation, Web design, usability, and analytics. - 20-year Internet marketing veteran, currently serving as the Digital Marketing Campaign Manager at Antenna Group (formerly Chicago Digital). - Former Editor-In-Chief of Website Magazine, and a regular speaker on Web technology digital marketing strategy - Author of several books on digital marketing Including Web 360: The Fundamentals of Web Success; Affiliate 360: The Fundamentals of Performance Marketing; Domains 360: The Fundamentals of Buying & Selling Domain Names, and SEO 360: The Fundamentals of Search Engine Optimization.