Multiple Roles per User <= 1.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Custom+) Privilege Escalation
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- 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-862.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
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
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-11620
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-5jxg-637f-45cf
References
Other 3
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/30741601-50b9-4799-a340-11f6ffa59553?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/multiple-roles-per-user/trunk/multiple-roles-per-user.php#L54
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/multiple-roles-per-user/trunk/multiple-roles-per-user.php#L121
Sources
- CVE-2025-11620 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-11620 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-5jxg-637f-45cf · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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