CVE-2024-12293
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-352
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Publication date:
17/12/2024
Last modified:
17/12/2024
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.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
8.80
Severity 3.x
HIGH
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-role-editor/trunk/includes/classes/grant-roles.php#L184
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-role-editor/trunk/includes/classes/grant-roles.php#L187
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3208193/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/#developers
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6f359d02-d4ce-4045-9e79-ae0f92b84766?source=cve



