User Role by BestWebSoft <= 1.6.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Privilege Escalation

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2023-0820
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published March 13, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher dc11
Description

The User Role by BestWebSoft plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.6.6. This is due to missing nonce validation in the edit-role-page.php file. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify the capabilities of individual roles to elevate individual user privileges via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug user-role (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.6.6
Patched Version
  • 1.6.7
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