Motors – Car Dealer, Classifieds & Listing <= 1.4.57 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Post Deletion and Listing Template Creation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-13737
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published March 21, 2025
Last Updated March 22, 2025
Researcher Thanh Nam Tran
Description

The Motors – Car Dealer, Classifieds & Listing plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability checks on the motors_create_template and motors_delete_template functions in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.57. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary posts or create listing templates. This issue requires Elementor plugin to be installed, which is a required plugin for Motors Starter Theme.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug motors-car-dealership-classified-listings (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.4.57
Patched Version
  • 1.4.58
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