CVE-2023-0820 (GCVE-0-2023-0820)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-04-03 14:38 – Updated: 2025-02-14 16:53
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Title
User Role by BestWebSoft < 1.6.7 - Privilege Escalation via CSRF
Summary
The User Role by BestWebSoft WordPress plugin before 1.6.7 does not protect against CSRF in requests to update role capabilities, leading to arbitrary privilege escalation of any role.
Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b93d9f9d-0fd9-49… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown User Role by BestWebSoft Affected: 0 , < 1.6.7 (custom)
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Credits
dc11 WPScan
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