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Description

The Expire Users plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.2. This is due to the plugin allowing a user to update the 'on_expire_default_to_role' meta through the 'save_extra_user_profile_fields' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to elevate their privileges to that of an administrator.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-03-16 | Published 2026-03-21 | Updated 2026-04-08 | Assigner Wordfence




HIGH: 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Product status

Default status
unaffected

Any version
affected

Timeline

2026-03-20:Disclosed

Credits

Hunter Jensen finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-8c53-4e09-a654-767810b5a775?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/...gs/1.2.2/admin/expire-user.php

cve.org (CVE-2026-4261)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-4261)

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