CVE-2014-4963
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedShopizer 1.1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to modify the account settings of arbitrary users via the customer.customerId parameter to shop/profile/register.action.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceShopizer 1.1.5 and earlier contains an Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerability in the shop/profile/register.action endpoint. By manipulating the customer.customerId parameter, an authenticated attacker can modify account settings of arbitrary users, bypassing proper authorization checks.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data<= 1.1.5CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- M
- Authentication
- None
- Confidentiality
- Partial
- Integrity
- Partial
- Availability
- Partial
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify Shopizer versionLocate the deployed Shopizer WAR file or check the application manifest/pom.xml for the version number. Compare against the affected range: <= 1.1.5Affected if Installed version is 1.1.5 or any earlier version
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Verify register.action endpoint existsCheck if the /shop/profile/register.action endpoint is accessible in the deployed application by reviewing the web.xml or attempting to access the URL pathAffected if The endpoint is present and accessible without being explicitly disabled
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Confirm customerId parameter acceptanceReview the register action code or intercept an HTTP request to the register.action endpoint and observe if the customer.customerId parameter is accepted in the requestAffected if The endpoint accepts a customerId parameter without server-side validation that it matches the authenticated user
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Test IDOR vulnerabilityAs an authenticated user, submit a request to register.action with a customerId value different from your own account ID and observe if the system accepts the modificationAffected if The system allows modifying another user's account settings by changing the customerId parameter value
A user is affected if running Shopizer version 1.1.5 or earlier AND the register.action endpoint accepts and acts on the customerId parameter without verifying the authenticated user owns that ID.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement server-side authorization validation to ensure users can only modify their own account data. The fix should verify the authenticated user's identity matches the requested customerId before allowing any profile modifications.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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