CVE-2025-14042 Cross-site scripting in Automotive Car Dealership Business WordPress Theme
Authenticated attackers can inject arbitrary web scripts via Portfolio Project Details, leading to code execution when users view the page.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-14042?
CVE-2025-14042 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in themesuite Automotive Car Dealership Business WordPress Theme, published on 29 May 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Automotive Car Dealership Business WordPress Theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'Project Details' custom field in Portfolio Items in all versions up to, and including, 13.4.1. This is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the 'project_details' custom field. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-14042?
How do I fix CVE-2025-14042?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-14042 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2025-14042 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14042 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-64cg-w47x-76fj.