High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 3, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2023-0820

Description

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.

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Affected products

WordPress/User Roleinferred
Range: <1.6.7
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-role
Bestwebsoft/User Role
cpe:2.3:a:bestwebsoft:user_role:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Range: <1.6.7
WordPress/User Role by BestWebSoftllm-fuzzy
Range: <1.6.7

Patches

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References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/b93d9f9d-0fd9-49b8-b465-d32b95351912nvdExploitThird Party Advisory

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