Vulnerability · Published Oct 31, 2022 · Assigned by WPScan

CVE-2022-3419Automatic User Roles Switcher < 1.1.2 - Subscriber+ Privilege Escalation

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity privilege mismanagement in Automatic User Roles Switcher from Unknown. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 35% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 64.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

The Automatic User Roles Switcher WordPress plugin before 1.1.2 does not have authorisation and proper CSRF checks, allowing any authenticated users like subscriber to add any role to themselves, such as administrator

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Unknown Automatic User Roles Switcher 1.1.2 – before 1.1.2

Weakness: CWE-269, CWE-352 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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