WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

User Role Editor < 4.64.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Privilege Escalation

Description

The User Role Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 4.64.3. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the update_roles() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to add or remove roles for arbitrary users, including escalating their privileges to administrator, via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 4.64.4

References

Classification

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
vgo0
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2024-12-16 (about 1 year ago)
Added
2024-12-17 (about 1 year ago)
Last Updated
2024-12-17 (about 1 year ago)

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