TI-2024-11403 Aliases CVE-2024-12293 GHSA-gxcj-4x66-8ccf

User Role Editor <= 4.64.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Privilege Escalation

MEDIUM 40CWE-352Published 2024-12-17 · Updated 2026-04-08

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: Required
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Tampering
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: High · High · High
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-352.

Summary

The User Role Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 4.64.3. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the update_roles() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to add or remove roles for arbitrary users, including escalating their privileges to administrator, via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00329 26th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
shinephp	User Role Editor	up to 4.64.3	—	No fix listed	CNA

User Role Editor Vendorshinephp Affected up to 4.64.3 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-12293
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-gxcj-4x66-8ccf

References

Other 5

TI-2014-01834 Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Thank You Counter Button… CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 4.3

Sources

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