Motors: Privilege escalation or authentication bypass
Motors is affected by privilege escalation or authentication bypass. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. A successful request can grant permissions or access that the caller should not possess.
- Component
- Motors
- Plugin slug
motors- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- May 20, 2025
This CVE was published May 20, 2025 and is one of 4 known issues for this theme.
Patch or disable the affected component.
Update Motors to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
Technical 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.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H