Vulnerabilites related to Unknown - User Role by BestWebSoft
CVE-2023-0820 (GCVE-0-2023-0820)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-04-03 14:38
Modified
2025-02-14 16:53
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown User Role by BestWebSoft Version: 0   < 1.6.7
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