CarSpot – Dealership Wordpress Classified Theme <= 2.2.3 — Insecure Direct Object Reference
4eea120e-839e-4b01-a5a8-af21f5ab99f5Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤2.2.3Update to 2.2.4 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High7.5
- CVSS
- 7.5CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:NConfidentiality- None
I:NIntegrity- None
A:HAvailability- High
- Weakness
- CWE-284 Improper Access Control
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
CarSpot – Dealership Wordpress Classified Theme carspot
- Affected≤ 2.2.3
- Patched in2.2.4
Update to 2.2.4 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 2.2.3. Version 2.2.4 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under CarSpot – Dealership Wordpress Classified Theme.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 2.2.4, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch CarSpot – Dealership Wordpress Classified Theme to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to R3N0.
The CarSpot – Dealership Wordpress Classified Theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object References in versions up to, and including, 2.2.3 via the 'ad_id' parameter passed via the sb_remove_ad AJAX action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete any posting, page, or ad.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
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All 5| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium6.1 | Reflected Cross-Site Scripting <2.4.6Update to 2.4.6 | CVE-2025-69317 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated Arbitrary Password Reset/Account Takeover ≤2.4.3Update to 2.4.4 | CVE-2024-12860 | |
| Medium6.4 | Stored Cross-Site Scripting ≤2.2.3Update to 2.2.4 | — | |
| Medium6.4 | Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting <2.1.7Update to 2.1.7 | CVE-2019-15870 |
- Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
<2.4.6Update to 2.4.6
- Critical9.8Unauthenticated Arbitrary Password Reset/Account Takeover
≤2.4.3Update to 2.4.4
- Medium6.4Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2.2.3Update to 2.2.4
- Medium6.4Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
<2.1.7Update to 2.1.7
Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 7.5
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.