Cardealer <= 1.6.4 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Change and Delete JS and CSS Files

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-1681
CVSS Medium (5.4)
Publicly Published February 27, 2025
Last Updated February 27, 2025
Researcher István Márton
Description

The Cardealer theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data and loss of data due to a missing capability check and missing filename sanitization on the demo theme scheme AJAX functions in versions up to, and including, 1.6.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to change or delete arbitrary css and js files.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Theme
Software Slug cardealer (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.6.4
Patched Version
  • 1.6.5
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