CVE-2025-1282

Car Dealer Automotive WordPress Theme – Responsive <= 1.6.3 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Deletion and Read

2025-02-26 00:00
Tonn

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.6.4
Affected Theme
Car Dealer Automotive WordPress Theme – Responsive
Affected Version
<= 1.6.3
CVSS
8.8High
Weakness type
CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVE
CVE-2025-1282
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At a glance

CVE-2025-1282 is a high-severity Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in the Car Dealer Automotive WordPress Theme WordPress theme, affecting versions <= 1.6.3. It carries a CVSS score of 8.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Subscriber level or above. The issue is fixed in version 1.6.4; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2025, reported by Tonn.

Vulnerability Overview

The Car Dealer Automotive WordPress Theme – Responsive theme for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file deletion due to insufficient file path validation in the delete_post_photo() and add_car() functions in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary files on the server, which can easily lead to remote code execution when the right file is deleted (such as wp-config.php). The add_car() function may also make it possible to read arbitrary files.

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. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.

CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Car Dealer Automotive WordPress Theme <= 1.6.3 carries this weakness at delete_post_photo(), and reaching it takes an account at Subscriber level or above. Path traversal happens when user-controlled text is used to build a filesystem path without being constrained to an intended directory, so sequences like ../ walk the resolved path somewhere else.

Depending on the operation, it means reading files outside the intended folder — wp-config.php being the usual target — or writing to and deleting paths the web server can touch. For Car Dealer Automotive WordPress Theme the fix is 1.6.4: builds <= 1.6.3 are affected, anything from 1.6.4 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.6.4, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

An attacker needs Subscriber access first, so the firewall sees the attempt as traffic from a logged-in account: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Car Dealer Automotive WordPress Theme 1.6.4 closes this, and updating the theme is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-1282https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/edf4b588-8b67-425a-b0e1-d4382cb88dd1https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1282

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