WordPress Motors theme flaw mass-exploited to hijack admin accounts
Hackers are exploiting a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in the WordPress theme "Motors" to hijack administrator accounts and gain complete control of a targeted site. The malicious activity was spotted by Wordfence, which had warned last month about the severity of the flaw, tracked under CVE-2025-4322, urging users to upgrade immediately. Motors, developed by StylemixThemes, is a WordPress theme popular among automotive-related websites. It has 22,460 sales on the EnvatoMarket an