CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-1682
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-02-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-862
Description
The Cardealer theme for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 1.6.4 due to missing capability check on the 'save_settings' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to modify the default user role.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
References
- https://themeforest.net/item/car-dealer-automotive-wordpress-theme-responsive/8574708 themeforest.net
- https://webtemplatemasters.com/cardealer/changelog/#v165 webtemplatemasters.com
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4e337281-f05e-486c-9491-161365af252a?source=cve www.wordfence.com