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 OsCommerce (styled "osCommerce" - "open source Commerce") is an e-commerce and online store-management software program. It can be used on any web server that has PHP and MySQL installed. It is available as free software under the GNU General Public License.

OsCommerce was started in March 2000 in Germany by Harald Ponce de Leon. The open source project was known as The Exchange Project. In its infancy, osCommerce was referred to by Ponce de Leon as "a side thing" and "an example research study". By late 2001, a team formed for its development and in the words of Harald Ponce de Leon, this was the point the team started taking the project seriously.[2][unreliable source?]

By 2005, over 2000 websites used osCommerce and in 2009 this amount grew to 13,000.[4]. In 2021, BuiltWith[5] reports over 230,000 websites powered by osCommerce.

In 2021, the Holbi Group took over management of osCommerce from Ponce De Leon and have announced their intention to release 4.x,scheduled to be released in summer 2021

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Distributed under the GNU General Public License, osCommerce is one of the earliest PHP based Open Source shopping cart software distributions.[7] It inspired the creation of many other online store platforms, such as Magento[8]. It has also spawned a number of forks, such as Zen Cart, xt:Commerce, oscMAX and Phoenix.[9]

Publicised vulnerabilities

In August 2011 three vulnerabilities in version 2.2 of the osCommerce system were exploited, allowing the addition of an iframe and JavaScript code to infect visitors to websites. Armorize reports this allowed infected web pages to hit 90,000 in a very short time until it was noticed and increasing further to 4.5 million pages within the space of a week.

OsCommerce 2.3 was made available in November 2011 and patched the exploited security holes.

See also

Free and open-source software portal

Comparison of shopping cart software

List of online payment service providers