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Multiple Roles < 1.3.7 — Privilege Escalation

32b3ad84-6adb-44c1-942a-51f27638c8c9Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <1.3.7Update to 1.3.7 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
High8.8
CVSS
8.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-285 Improper Authorization
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Multiple Roles multiple-roles

  1. Affected< 1.3.7
  2. Patched in1.3.7

Update to 1.3.7 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 1.3.7. Version 1.3.7 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Multiple Roles.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.3.7, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Multiple Roles to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence.

The Multiple Roles plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions before 1.3.7. This could allow authenticated attackers to escalate their privileges by updating user roles on the site.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Multiple Roles

All 2
More vulnerabilities in Multiple Roles
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium4.3Multiple Roles <= 1.3.1- Cross-Site Request Forgery Bypass
≤1.3.1Update to 1.3.2
CVE-2021-4402

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 8.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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