# CVE-2025-4322: Motors Theme - Authentication Bypass

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2025-4322 by the CrowdSec Live Exploit Tracker, built from real-world attack data crowdsourced from CrowdSec's global network.

Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2025-4322

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Limited Exploitation. The vulnerability is known but shows very limited attacker interest or exploitation activity.
- **CVSS score:** 9.8
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** StylemixThemes Motors - Car Dealer, Rental & Listing WordPress theme
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-620 (Unverified Password Change)
- **Tags:** cms, wordpress

## Description

The Motors theme for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 5.6.67. This is due to the theme not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user passwords, including those of administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their account.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2025-4322](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2025-4322) is a critical vulnerability in the Motors - Car Dealer, Rental & Listing WordPress theme that allows unauthenticated attackers to escalate privileges by taking over user accounts, including administrator accounts, through improper password update validation. Exploiting this flaw, attackers can change arbitrary user passwords and gain unauthorized access to sensitive site functions, potentially leading to full site compromise.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 17th of June 2025.

CrowdSec has not observed any significant exploitation activity targeting CVE-2025-4322 across its network. As a result, no community-driven trend analysis is available for this vulnerability at this time.

Attackers probe for the presence and version of the Motors WordPress theme by requesting `/wp-content/themes/motors/style.css`, which can be used to identify vulnerable installations susceptible to privilege escalation and account takeover. They can then find the uri for the login form and reset arbitrary users passwords without authentication.

## Timeline

- 2025-05-20: CVE Published. CVE-2025-4322 is published to NVD.
- 2025-06-17: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2025-4322 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.

## References

- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-4322.yaml

## Live exploitation data

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