Description
The Vehica Core plugin for WordPress, used by the Vehica - Car Dealer & Listing WordPress Theme, is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.97. This is due to the plugin not properly validating user meta fields prior to updating them in the database. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change escalate their privileges to Administrator.
Published: 2025-04-04
Score: 8.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: Privilege Escalation to Administrator
Action: Immediate Patch
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-9680 The Vehica Core plugin for WordPress, used by the Vehica - Car Dealer & Listing WordPress Theme, is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.97. This is due to the plugin not properly validating user meta fields prior to updating them in the database. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change escalate their privileges to Administrator.
History

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Fri, 04 Apr 2025 07:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description The Vehica Core plugin for WordPress, used by the Vehica - Car Dealer & Listing WordPress Theme, is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.97. This is due to the plugin not properly validating user meta fields prior to updating them in the database. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change escalate their privileges to Administrator.
Title Vehica Core <= 1.0.97 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation
Weaknesses CWE-269
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T16:34:52.481Z

Reserved: 2025-04-01T22:33:18.158Z

Link: CVE-2025-3105

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-04-04T13:15:51.433Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2025-04-04T08:15:14.190

Modified: 2026-04-15T00:35:42.020

Link: CVE-2025-3105

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Updated: 2026-04-22T17:45:22Z

Weaknesses