# Motors <= 1.4.129 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Location Search Settings Modification

- **ID:** WPSEC-2026-2699
- **Plugin:** Motors – Car Dealership & Classified Listings Plugin (`motors-car-dealership-classified-listings`), https://wordpress.org/plugins/motors-car-dealership-classified-listings/
- **Affected versions:** all versions before 1.4.130
- **Fixed in:** 1.4.130 (Update to 1.4.130 or later.)
- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
- **Weakness:** CWE-862
- **Usage among sites WPSec scans:** plugin Low, affected versions Low (as of 2026-11-07)
- **Attack surface analysis:** https://attacksurface.wpsec.com/plugin/motors-car-dealership-classified-listings
- **Fix released:** 2026-11-06
- **Published:** 2026-11-07
- **URL:** https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2699/

## Description

The Motors plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the stm_listings_save_single_option_row, stm_listings_add_new_option and stm_listings_delete_single_option_row AJAX actions in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.129. These handlers were protected only by nonces that were printed in the admin header for every logged-in user who could reach the dashboard, and they update or delete the mvl_location_settings option before any capability check is applied. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to overwrite or delete the plugin's location and distance search settings and to read the listing custom field configuration.

## References

- https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2699/
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/motors-car-dealership-classified-listings/tags/1.4.130/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/motors-car-dealership-classified-listings/

Source: WPSec, https://wpsec.com/vuln/WPSEC-2026-2699/

License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Free to use, share and adapt, also commercially, if you credit WPSec and link to this advisory.