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User Role Vulnerabilities

7 known security issues reported for the User Role WordPress plugin. Most recent disclosed Apr 3, 2023.

1 high 1 medium

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User Role by BestWebSoft &#8211; Add and Customize Roles and Capabilities in WordPress [user-role] < 1.6.7

unknown

[en] 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.

Affected:
up to 1.6.7
Fixed in:
1.6.7
Disclosed:
Apr 3, 2023

CVE-2023-0820 on NVD →

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

high

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 in...

CVSS:
8.8
Affected:
up to 1.6.6
Fixed in:
1.6.7
Disclosed:
Mar 13, 2023

CVE-2023-0820 on NVD →

User Role by BestWebSoft &#8211; Add and Customize Roles and Capabilities in WordPress [user-role] < 1.5.6

unknown

[en] The user-role plugin before 1.5.6 for WordPress has multiple XSS issues.

Affected:
up to 1.5.6
Fixed in:
1.5.6
Disclosed:
Aug 20, 2019

CVE-2017-18566 on NVD →

User Role by BestWebSoft &#8211; Add and Customize Roles and Capabilities in WordPress [user-role] < 1.5.6

unknown

[en] Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Captcha prior to version 4.3.0, Car Rental prior to version 1.0.5, Contact Form Multi prior to version 1.2.1, Contact Form prior to version 4.0.6, Contact Form to DB prior to version 1.5.7, Custom Admin Page prior to version 0.1.2, Custom Fields Search prior to version 1.3.2,...

Affected:
up to 1.5.6
Fixed in:
1.5.6
Disclosed:
May 22, 2017

CVE-2017-2171 on NVD →

User Role by BestWebSoft &#8211; Add and Customize Roles and Capabilities in WordPress [user-role] < 1.5.2

unknown

A Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability was found in WordPress User Role by BestWebSoft Plugin in version 1.5.1. In the file /user-role.php, there's no escaping done when variables are echoed. Update the plugin.

Affected:
up to 1.5.2
Fixed in:
1.5.2
Disclosed:
Apr 25, 2017

User Role <= 1.5.5 - Cross-Site Scripting

medium

The User Role plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 1.5.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute in a victim's browser.

CVSS:
6.1
Affected:
up to 1.5.5
Fixed in:
1.5.6
Disclosed:
Apr 12, 2017

CVE-2017-18566 on NVD →

User Role by BestWebSoft &#8211; Add and Customize Roles and Capabilities in WordPress [user-role] < 1.5.6

unknown
Affected:
up to 1.5.6
Fixed in:
1.5.6

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