CVE-2025-4322 describes a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in the WordPress Motors theme, affecting all versions up to and including 5.6.67. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user passwords, including administrators, due to improper identity validation during password updates. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Active exploitation has been confirmed, with multiple media outlets reporting mass exploitation to hijack admin accounts. While no Metasploit or ExploitDB modules exist, Nuclei templates are available, and the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| StylemixThemes | Motors - Car Dealer, Rental & Listing WordPress Theme | >= 0, <= 5.6.67CNA affecteddefault unaffected |
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.
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.