CVE-2022-3989 affects the Motors WordPress plugin prior to version 1.4.4, allowing attackers to upload malicious PHP files due to improper validation of file types in an AJAX action. This vulnerability carries a high severity CVSS score of 8.8, indicating that an authenticated attacker can achieve high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, the potential for a brute-force attack to discover the uploaded payload makes this a serious concern for affected systems.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.4.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:stylemixthemes:motors_-_car_dealer\,_classifieds_\&_listing:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.