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Motors <= 1.4.128 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) File Deletion via 'stm_dealer_logo_path' Parameter

8.1HighCNA
Exploited
No known exploitation
Fix
No fix listed
Who is exposed
Not reported
Published
Last modified
0.49% · 42nd percentile
16/100 · provisional
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

The Motors – Car Dealership & Classified Listings plugin for WordPress lets an attacker who has logged in remotely with a low-privilege account, such as a Subscriber, delete image files belonging to other users, including avatars, dealer logos, and uploaded media in the uploads folder. The attacker saves a crafted path in their own profile and then triggers the deletion through the become-dealer form, but files outside the uploads directory, such as wp-config.php, cannot be reached.

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The Motors – Car Dealership & Classified Listings Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to File Deletion in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.128 The vulnerability exists because stm_save_user_extra_fields(), hooked to personal_options_update, writes the attacker-controlled stm_dealer_logo_path parameter directly to user meta without an ownership check binding the submitted path to the submitting user — unlike the stm_payment_status and stm_lost_password_hash fields, this field is not gated by a manage_options or edit_users capability check. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete image files belonging to other users under wp-content/uploads — including other users' avatars, dealer logos, and uploaded media — by storing a crafted path via their own profile and then triggering unlink() through the become-dealer form on their author page. Note that the two path guards (stm_mvl_is_path_within_uploads and stm_mvl_is_allowed_image_file) do restrict the attack surface to files with an image extension that resolve within the uploads basedir; files outside that directory, such as wp-config.php or plugin PHP files, cannot be reached.

cve.now Index

16Pcve.now Index 16 of 100 · methodology v3 · provisional
  • Exploitation0/40No signal
  • Exposure3/25Reachable over the network · Unknown: No advisory context yet
  • Reach?/20Unknown. No tracked technology or package matched
  • Severity8.1/10CVSS 8.1
  • No patch5/5No patch listed yet

What would change the score

  • Would score about 71 if added to CISA KEV
  • Would score about 66 if CISA's SSVC rates exploitation active
  • Would score about 35 if advisories confirm default setups are exposed

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. First seen by cve.now
  3. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  4. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • stylemix Motors – Car Dealership & Classified Listings Plugin

    through 1.4.128

Evidence 6

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Corrections

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Questions about CVE-2026-116617

Is CVE-2026-116617 being exploited?

It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. No public exploit code is tracked.Source: cve.now feed data

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-116617?

Motors – Car Dealership & Classified Listings Plugin: through 1.4.128.Source: cve.now feed data