Given the nature of the internet and that hacking and security breaches are an every day part of life there are certain things that you need to ensure you do when managing your X-Cart site when it comes to credit cards.

Whether utilising manual credit card processing, or an automated payment gateway option, you need to ensure that you make your cart as secure as possible when handling sensitive data like customer credit card information.

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Diff file (or a patch) is a file ‘describing’ changes which needs to be applied to the file. In UNIX world diff files are a standard way to apply changes/fixes to a program source code. There is a special program called ‘patch’ which reads diff files and applies the changes to the source code.

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During internal audit activities we found a moderate security issue that makes X-Cart potentially vulnerable to attackers who wish to gain access to the application back-end.

The following security improvement has been included into this update: -

- protection from XSS attacks.

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During internal security audit a critical security issue has been detected in X-Cart. The issue makes the software vulnerable to attackers who wish to gain access to the server file system. The solution is to remove an affected file.

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X-Cart ensures their software is as secure a possible. Sometimes security flaws are discovered and as soon as this happens, a security bulletin is sent out to all X-Cart customers. We here at Just X-Cart Australia Pty Ltd also send out a copy of each bulletin as a courtesy to our clients.

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Several moderate security issues have been detected in X-Cart. The issues make the software potentially vulnerable to attackers who wish to gain access to the application back-end …

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During internal audit activities we found several moderate security issues that make X-Cart potentially
vulnerable to attackers who wish to gain access to the application back-end.

The following security improvements have been included into this update …

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With the release of 4.1.11, X-Cart Gold have put in an excellent, automated security measure with regards to the install.php.
To ensure the security of your X-Cart installation, the file install.php gets renamed to a random string of numbers and letters. This string is automatically created for you and is unique to your licence, just like [...]

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Several moderate security issues have been identified in X-Cart. The issues make X-Cart-based stores potentially vulnerable to attackers who wish to make the application inoperable or gain access to the application back-end.
Qualiteam has released the security update which includes the following improvements.
All versions:
- the way adding/updating users worked, which was introduced in the previous patch, [...]

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Several hack attempts on LiteCommerce stores were revealed recently.

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