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

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVE CVE-2025-1282
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published February 26, 2025
Last Updated February 27, 2025
Researcher Tonn
Description

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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Theme
Software Slug cardealer (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.6.3
Patched Version
  • 1.6.4
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