{"cve":"CVE-2026-16078","nvd":{"published":"2026-07-23T10:16:51.727","modified":"2026-07-23T16:17:14.723","status":"Deferred","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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","score":6.5},"cwes":["CWE-22"],"references":["https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/woocommerce-pos/tags/1.9.7/includes/API/Templates_Controller.php#L1497","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/woocommerce-pos/tags/1.9.7/includes/API/Templates_Controller.php#L446","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/woocommerce-pos/tags/1.9.7/includes/Templates.php#L445","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/woocommerce-pos/tags/1.9.7/includes/Templates.php#L481","https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3612715%40woocommerce-pos&new=3612715%40woocommerce-pos"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:45:53.305392138+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-16078","score":0.00911,"percentile":0.59997,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}