The WCPOS – Point of Sale (POS) plugin for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.8 via the 'type' parameter parameter. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with shop manager-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information. Successful exploitation requires supplying context=edit in the request, which bypasses the content-stripping logic in prepare_item_for_response() and returns the traversed file verbatim in the REST API response.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

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No CVSS v2

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Vendor Product Default status Versions
kilbot WCPOS – Point of Sale (POS) plugin for WooCommerce unaffected
Version Status Constraints
0 affected ≤ 1.9.8

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References
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https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/woocommerce-pos/tags/1.9.7/includes/API/Templates_Controller.php#L1497 cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/woocommerce-pos/tags/1.9.7/includes/API/Templates_Controller.php#L446 cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/woocommerce-pos/tags/1.9.7/includes/Templates.php#L445 cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/woocommerce-pos/tags/1.9.7/includes/Templates.php#L481 cve-icon
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3612715%40woocommerce-pos&new=3612715%40woocommerce-pos cve-icon
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0148c70f-38e4-43d9-994e-f2b01dd168a1?source=cve cve-icon
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Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:30:00 +0000

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Description The WCPOS – Point of Sale (POS) plugin for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.8 via the 'type' parameter parameter. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with shop manager-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information. Successful exploitation requires supplying context=edit in the request, which bypasses the content-stripping logic in prepare_item_for_response() and returns the traversed file verbatim in the REST API response.
Title WCPOS <= 1.9.8 - Authenticated (Shop Manager+) Path Traversal to Arbitrary File Read via 'type' Parameter
Weaknesses CWE-22
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-07-23T08:34:38.449Z

Reserved: 2026-07-17T13:43:40.729Z

Link: CVE-2026-16078

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