User:OldEcomGuru/OpenCart article

OpenCart is an open source e-commerce web application that was launched on February 3, 2009. It was developed by Daniel Kerr (now OpenCart Ltd) along with co-developer 'Qphoria'.

OpenCart is designed for the small to medium-sized online merchant.

One example web store running on OpenCart is the British Red Cross online gift shop.

History
Daniel Kerr, founder of OpenCart, formerly used osCommerce. He wrote OpenCart between 2005 and 2009 after the next major osCommerce release was delayed. On December 18, 2006, the first public beta version was released.

Usage
OpenCart has been adopted by over 184,000 online retailers ; mainly smaller e-commerce websites, although divisions of some larger organizations such as the British Red Cross also use it.

Publicised vulnerabilities
In January 2010 a CSRF exploit for OpenCart 1.4.x allowing a malicious page to create an admin user was made public. This class of vulnerability was still present in OpenCart 1.5.5.1 (released Jan 2013).