CVE-2025-1682: CWE-862 Missing Authorization in ThemeMakers Car Dealer Automotive WordPress Theme – Responsive
The Cardealer theme for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 1.6.4 due to missing capability check on the 'save_settings' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to modify the default user role.
CVE-2025-1682: CWE-862 Missing Authorization in ThemeMakers Car Dealer Automotive WordPress Theme – Responsive
Description
The Cardealer theme for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 1.6.4 due to missing capability check on the 'save_settings' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to modify the default user role.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.1
- Assigner Short Name
- Wordfence
- Date Reserved
- 2025-02-25T10:15:36.925Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 699f6b17b7ef31ef0b54e090
Added to database: 2/25/2026, 9:35:19 PM
Last updated: 2/26/2026, 8:44:25 AM
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