Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-3989

HighPublic PoC

Published: 12 December 2022

Published
12 December 2022
Modified
22 April 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0089 76.0th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-3989 is a high-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Stylemixthemes Motors - Car Dealer\, Classifieds \& Listing. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 24.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The Motors WordPress plugin before 1.4.4 does not properly validate uploaded files for dangerous file types (such as .php) in an AJAX action, allowing an attacker to sign up on a victim's WordPress instance, upload a malicious PHP file and…

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attempt to launch a brute-force attack to discover the uploaded payload.

CWE(s)
None listed

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

stylemixthemes
motors - car dealer\, classifieds \& listing
≤ 1.4.4

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References