CVE-2023-0820

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

highCross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
8.8
CVSS Score
8.8
CVSS Score
high
Severity
1.6.7
Patched in
316d
Time to patch

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.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
High
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability

Technical Details

Affected versions<=1.6.6
PublishedMarch 13, 2023
Last updatedJanuary 22, 2024
Affected pluginuser-role

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