WP CarDealer <= 1.2.16 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

9.8
Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2025-13764
CVSS 9.8 (Critical)
Publicly Published December 10, 2025
Last Updated December 11, 2025
Researcher Foxyyy

Description

The WP CarDealer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.16. This is due to the 'WP_CarDealer_User::process_register' function not restricting what user roles a user can register with. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to supply the 'administrator' role during registration and gain administrator access to the site.

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Vulnerability Details for WP CarDealer

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-cardealer
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.2.17, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.2.16
Patched Version
  • 1.2.17

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