Description
The Membership & User Roles for WooCommerce (Automatic Role Changer) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in versions up to, and including, 20260828. This is due to the `maybe_add_role_to_user()` function unconditionally re-assigning every role stored in the `dfxwcrc_foreign_roles` user meta cache without verifying that each cached role is still actively assigned by the external provider — a condition made permanent by `remember_foreign_roles()`, which merges new foreign roles into the cache but never evicts roles that have since been revoked. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access and above to restore a previously revoked Administrator role to their own account, gaining full administrative control of the site, by triggering any role-assignment event such as completing a purchase for a role-mapped product. Exploitation requires Replace Roles mode to be enabled and the attacker's account to have previously received Administrator legitimately through a separate role-management mechanism while the plugin was active, so that `administrator` was written into the `dfxwcrc_foreign_roles` user meta cache before the external provider revoked it.
References6
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dfx-woo-role-changer/trunk/d…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dfx-woo-role-changer/trunk/d…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dfx-woo-role-changer/trunk/d…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dfx-woo-role-changer/trunk/d…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3732550%40df…
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/833d9f92-9af1…
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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7.5
HIGH
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 27 · as of 11 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-269
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