Auth bypass in Stylemix Motors – Car Dealership & Classified Listings Plugin
CVE-2026-12435
The Motors – Car Dealership & Classified Listings Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.111. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to mark or unmark any other user's car listing as sold by replaying a valid nonce harvested from their own listing against an arbitrary victim post ID, triggering a site-wide 'Sold' badge on the victim's listing and silently stripping its special_car featured post meta as a side effect. Exploitation requires the attacker to hold an active listing of their own (obtainable by a Subscriber via the plugin's add-listing form) in order to harvest a valid nonce for the 'stm_mark_as_sold_car' action, which can then be replayed against any other listing's post ID.
Vulnerability class: Broken Access Control
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (32.0th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 32nd percentile — 32.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5238c344-d685-4eab-822c-d3c10…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/motors-car-dealership-classified-listings/ta…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/motors-car-dealership-classified-listings/ta…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/motors-car-dealership-classified-listings/ta…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/motors-car-dealership-classified-listings/ta…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/motors-car-dealership-classified-listings/ta…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/motors-car-dealership-classified-listings/ta…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-12435?
- CVE-2026-12435 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Stylemix Motors – Car Dealership & Classified Listings Plugin, classified under Missing Authorization. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2026-07-01.
- How severe is CVE-2026-12435?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.