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High · 8.8 CVE-2024-12293 EUVD-2024-50749GHSA-gxcj-4x66-8ccf

User Role Editor <= 4.64.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Privilege Escalation

Published Dec 17, 2024 · Updated Apr 8, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
shinephp User Role Editor ≤ 4.64.3 —

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