CVE-2024-13737

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

Status
Patched in 1.4.58
Affected Plugin
Motors – Car Dealership & Classified Listings Plugin
Affected Version
<= 1.4.57
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
CVE
CVE-2024-13737
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At a glance

CVE-2024-13737 is a medium-severity Missing Authorization vulnerability in the Motors WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.4.57. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Subscriber level or above. The issue is fixed in version 1.4.58; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2025, reported by Thanh Nam Tran.

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

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-862: Missing Authorization

Reaching this weakness in Motors <= 1.4.57 takes an account at Subscriber level or above. A missing authorization check means a function is reachable by anyone who can reach the endpoint, because the code never asks whether the caller is allowed to perform the action.

Any user who can reach the endpoint gets to run an action reserved for higher-privileged roles, from reading protected data to changing settings or content. For Motors the fix is 1.4.58: builds <= 1.4.57 are affected, anything from 1.4.58 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.4.58, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Motors 1.4.58 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-13737https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/04fd2d7a-fa75-4b9d-9514-5c24ca5ebc22https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13737

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