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SECURITY.md

Security Policy

Full details of the CoCart Security Policy can be found on cocartapi.com/security-policy/.

Supported Versions

The CoCart Headless Security Team believes in Responsible Disclosure by alerting the security team immediately and privately of any potential vulnerabilities. If a critical vulnerability is found in the current version of CoCart, we may opt to backport any patches to previous versions.

Version Supported
4.9.x Yes
4.8.x Yes
< 4.8.x No

Reporting a Vulnerability

CoCart Community is an open-source plugin for WordPress.

For responsible disclosure of security issues, please submit your report based on instructions found on cocartapi.com/security-policy/.

Scope

In scope:

  • CoCart Community (this repository)
  • cocartapi.com — the primary marketplace and marketing site.

Out of scope:

  • The CoCart community Discord server
  • Third-party plugins or themes that extend CoCart
  • The translation platform (translate.cocartapi.com)
  • Issues that only affect end-of-life PHP versions (currently PHP 8.1 and below)

Response Timeline

  • Acknowledgement: We aim to acknowledge your report within 48 hours.
  • Fix: We aim to release a fix within 30 days. Critical vulnerabilities may be patched sooner; lower-severity issues may take longer depending on complexity.

Guidelines

We're committed to working with security researchers to resolve the vulnerabilities they discover. You can help us by following these guidelines:

  • Pen-testing Production:
    • Please setup a local environment instead whenever possible. Most of our code is open source (see above).
    • If that's not possible, limit any data access/modification to the bare minimum necessary to reproduce a PoC.
    • Don't automate form submissions! That's very annoying for us, because it adds extra work for the volunteers who manage those systems, and reduces the signal/noise ratio in our communication channels.
  • Be Patient - Give us a reasonable time to correct the issue before you disclose the vulnerability.

There aren't any published security advisories