Motors <= 5.6.67 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Password Update/Account Takeover

Unverified Password Change
CVE CVE-2025-4322
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published May 19, 2025
Last Updated May 20, 2025
Researcher Foxyyy
Description

The Motors theme for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 5.6.67. This is due to the theme not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user passwords, including those of administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their account.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Theme
Software Slug motors (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.6.67
Patched Version
  • 5.6.68
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