CVE-2025-1682: Thememakers Car Dealer Automotive WordPress Theme – Responsive

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Cardealer theme for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 1.6.4 due to missing capability check on the 'save_settings' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to modify the default user role.

Affected products

• Thememakers Car Dealer Automotive WordPress Theme – Responsive: up to and including 1.6.4

Published 2025-02-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.