CVE-2026-104767
Membership & User Roles for WooCommerce (Automatic Role Changer) <= 20260828 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation to Stale Foreign Role Cache
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.5 High
- Published
- Oct 14, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 15, 2026
- Reserved
- Oct 2, 2026
Description
The Membership & User Roles for WooCommerce (Automatic Role Changer) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in versions up to, and including, 20260828. This is due to the `maybe_add_role_to_user()` function unconditionally re-assigning every role stored in the `dfxwcrc_foreign_roles` user meta cache without verifying that each cached role is still actively assigned by the external provider — a condition made permanent by `remember_foreign_roles()`, which merges new foreign roles into the cache but never evicts roles that have since been revoked. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access and above to restore a previously revoked Administrator role to their own account, gaining full administrative control of the site, by triggering any role-assignment event such as completing a purchase for a role-mapped product. Exploitation requires Replace Roles mode to be enabled and the attacker's account to have previously received Administrator legitimately through a separate role-management mechanism while the plugin was active, so that `administrator` was written into the `dfxwcrc_foreign_roles` user meta cache before the external provider revoked it.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.5 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | Wordfence |
Weaknesses
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Membership & User Roles for WooCommerce (Automatic Role Changer)davefx |
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References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/833d9f92-9af1-4332-9b1d-2d1d37073b4b?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dfx-woo-role-changer/trunk/dfx-woo-role-changer.php#L468
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dfx-woo-role-changer/trunk/dfx-woo-role-changer.php#L427
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dfx-woo-role-changer/trunk/dfx-woo-role-changer.php#L414
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dfx-woo-role-changer/trunk/dfx-woo-role-changer.php#L351
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3732550%40dfx-woo-role-changer&new=3732550%40dfx-woo-role-changer
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