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LiteCart

Lightweight free shopping cart built with PHP

E-commerce Platforms ★ 236 stars Easy setup GPL-3.0

LiteCart is a free e-commerce platform built with PHP, HTML5, and jQuery. It is designed to be lightweight, fast, and easy to manage for small online stores.

Official siteSource code

Key features

  • Minimal footprint
  • No framework dependencies
  • Multilingual storefront
  • Simple admin interface

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Very low resource usage
  • Easy to deploy on shared hosting

Trade-offs

  • Small community
  • Limited modern features

Is LiteCart secure?

OSV.dev lists 4 published advisories for LiteCart. It doesn't publish GitHub releases we can match, so we can't say which of them apply to the current version. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2022-27168, published 2022-07-11 (1556 days ago), fixed in 2.4.2

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

LiteCart replaces

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SelfHostIndex: 70 · good

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