CVE-2026-12435
MEDIUM 4.3The Motors – Car Dealership & Classified Listings Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.111. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to mark or unmark any other user's car listing as sold by replaying a valid nonce harvested from their own listing against an arbitrary victim post ID, triggering a site-wide 'Sold' badge on the victim's listing and silently stripping its special_car featured post meta as a side effect. Exploitation requires the attacker to hold an active listing of their own (obtainable by a Subscriber via the plugin's add-listing form) in order to harvest a valid nonce for the 'stm_mark_as_sold_car' action, which can then be replayed against any other listing's post ID.
No known exploitation, public exploit, or elevated probability at this time. Track for changes.
Exploitation likelihood
0.2%chance of exploitation in 30 days · 14th percentile
Impact if exploited
4.3CVSS 3.1 · MEDIUM
- ConfidentialityNone
- IntegrityLow
- AvailabilityNone
What an attacker needs
- ✓Access: Reachable over the network — no local access needed
- ⚠Privileges: Requires a low-privilege account
- ✓User interaction: No user interaction needed
- ✓Complexity: No special conditions — reliably repeatable
✓ lowers the bar for an attacker · ⚠ raises it
Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-862: Missing authorization
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
References
Technical & other
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5238c344-d685-4eab-822c-d3c1050cc982?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/motors-car-dealership-classified-listings/tags/1.4.110/includes/vehicle_functions.php#L2402
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/motors-car-dealership-classified-listings/tags/1.4.110/includes/vehicle_functions.php#L2400
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/motors-car-dealership-classified-listings/tags/1.4.110/templates/listing-cars/listing-list-owner-actions.php#L74
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/motors-car-dealership-classified-listings/tags/1.4.108/includes/vehicle_functions.php#L2402
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/motors-car-dealership-classified-listings/tags/1.4.108/includes/vehicle_functions.php#L2400
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/motors-car-dealership-classified-listings/tags/1.4.108/templates/listing-cars/listing-list-owner-actions.php#L74
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3577332%40motors-car-dealership-classified-listings&new=3577332%40motors-car-dealership-classified-listings&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=