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Description

The Multiple Roles per User plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'mrpu_add_multiple_roles_ui' and 'mrpu_save_multiple_user_roles' functions in all versions up to, and including, 1.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, granted the 'edit_users' capability, to edit any user's role, including promoting users to Administrator and demoting Administrators to lower-privileged roles.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-10-10 | Published 2025-11-18 | Updated 2025-11-18 | Assigner Wordfence




HIGH: 7.2CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Product status

Default status
unaffected

* (semver)
affected

Timeline

2025-11-17:Disclosed

Credits

Jonas Benjamin Friedli finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-50b9-4799-a340-11f6ffa59553?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...nk/multiple-roles-per-user.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...nk/multiple-roles-per-user.php

cve.org (CVE-2025-11620)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-11620)

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