Motors – Car Dealer, Classifieds & Listing <= 1.4.57 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Post Deletion and Listing Template Creation

2025-03-21 14:06
Thanh Nam Tran

Strategic Overview

Vulnerability Overview

The Motors – Car Dealer, Classifieds & Listing plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability checks on the motors_create_template and motors_delete_template functions in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.57. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary posts or create listing templates. This issue requires Elementor plugin to be installed, which is a required plugin for Motors Starter Theme.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 1.4.58, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

External References

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