CVE-2024-12860 describes a critical privilege escalation vulnerability affecting all versions up to and including 2.4.3 of the CarSpot – Dealership Wordpress Classified Theme for WordPress. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to reset arbitrary user passwords, including administrators, due to insufficient token validation during password updates. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction required, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The FAUCET Risk Score is 92/100, indicating a high potential impact. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation (KEV: No), nor are there public Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB modules available. Community discussion is minimal, with only one mention, and there is no media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.4.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:carspot_project:carspot:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.