Vulnerabilities / Motors / WPSEC-2026-2698
Motors <= 1.4.129 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Term Creation
Medium 4.3
CWE-862Fixed in 1.4.130
- ID
- WPSEC-2026-2698
- Plugin
- Motors – Car Dealership & Classified Listings Plugin (motors-car-dealership-classified-listings)
- Affected
- all versions before 1.4.130
- Remediation
- Update to 1.4.130 or later.
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weakness
- CWE-862
- Usage
- Plugin Low · Affected versions Low among sites WPSec scans, 2026-11-07
- Attack surface
- Motors on WPSec AttackSurface
- Fix released
- Published
Description
The Motors plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized term creation due to a missing capability check and a non-fatal nonce check on the stm_listings_add_category_in AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.129. The function also did not restrict which taxonomy the term was added to. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to insert new terms into arbitrary taxonomies on the site.
References
- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2698/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/motors-car-dealership-classified-listings/tags/1.4.130/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/motors-car-dealership-classified-listings/
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