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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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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