Bulk Change Role <= 1.1 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2024-50504
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published October 28, 2024
Last Updated December 12, 2024
Researcher ardias
Description

The Bulk Change Role plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the bulk_change_role_callback() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to set their role to that of an administrator.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug bulk-role-change (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.1
Patched Version
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