WP CarDealer <= 1.2.16 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2025-13764
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published December 10, 2025
Last Updated December 11, 2025
Researcher Foxyyy
Description

The WP CarDealer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.16. This is due to the 'WP_CarDealer_User::process_register' function not restricting what user roles a user can register with. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to supply the 'administrator' role during registration and gain administrator access to the site.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-cardealer (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.2.16
Patched Version
  • 1.2.17
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