Vehica Core plugin for WordPress, used by the Vehica - Car Dealer & Listing: Privilege escalation or authentication bypass
Vehica Core plugin for WordPress, used by the Vehica - Car Dealer & Listing is affected by privilege escalation or authentication bypass. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. A successful request can grant permissions or access that the caller should not possess.
- Component
- Vehica Core plugin for WordPress, used by the Vehica - Car Dealer & Listing
- Plugin slug
vehica-core- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Apr 04, 2025
This CVE was published Apr 04, 2025 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Vehica Core plugin for WordPress, used by the Vehica - Car Dealer & Listing to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Vehica Core plugin for WordPress, used by the Vehica - Car Dealer & Listing WordPress Theme, is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.97. This is due to the plugin not properly validating user meta fields prior to updating them in the database. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change escalate their privileges to Administrator.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H