CarSpot – Dealership Wordpress Classified Theme <= 2.4.3 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Password Reset/Account Takeover

Unverified Password Change
CVE CVE-2024-12860
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published February 17, 2025
Last Updated February 18, 2025
Researcher Lucio Sá
Description

The CarSpot – Dealership Wordpress Classified Theme theme for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.3. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a token prior to updating a user's password. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user's passwords, including administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their account.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Theme
Software Slug carspot (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.4.3
Patched Version
  • 2.4.4
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