osCommerce e-commerce software vulnerable to hackers, security researchers find

Tuesday, October 8, 2013 - 08:01 in Mathematics & Economics

(Phys.org) —A popular open-source software for e-commerce is vulnerable to being cheated, computer security researchers at the University of California, Davis, have found. By exploiting vulnerabilities in the widely used osCommerce software, the researchers were able to purchase items from online stores for free or substantially less than their correct prices.

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