CVE-2024-12293
User Role Editor <= 4.64.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Privilege Escalation
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 8.8 High
- Published
- Dec 17, 2024
- Updated
- Apr 8, 2026
- Reserved
- Dec 5, 2024
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 8.8 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | Wordfence |
Weaknesses
- CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
User Role Editorshinephp |
|
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6f359d02-d4ce-4045-9e79-ae0f92b84766?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-role-editor/trunk/includes/classes/grant-roles.php#L184
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-role-editor/trunk/includes/classes/grant-roles.php#L187
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/#developers
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3208193/
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