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Privilege escalation in Membership & User Roles for WooCommerce

Priority LOW 35CWE-269Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
High
Impact type
Privilege escalation
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-269.

Summary

The Membership & User Roles for WooCommerce (Automatic Role Changer) plugin for WordPress is affected up to and including 20260828. A stale cache of foreign roles is reassigned without checking that the external provider still grants them, so revoked roles return (CWE-269). An authenticated attacker with subscriber-level access or above can regain a revoked Administrator role and full control of the site when Replace Roles mode is enabled.

Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-28

Description from the CNA

The Membership & User Roles for WooCommerce (Automatic Role Changer) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in versions up to, and including, 20260828. This is due to the `maybe_add_role_to_user()` function unconditionally re-assigning every role stored in the `dfxwcrc_foreign_roles` user meta cache without verifying that each cached role is still actively assigned by the external provider — a condition made permanent by `remember_foreign_roles()`, which merges new foreign roles into the cache but never evicts roles that have since been revoked. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access and above to restore a previously revoked Administrator role to their own account, gaining full administrative control of the site, by triggering any role-assignment event such as completing a purchase for a role-mapped product. Exploitation requires Replace Roles mode to be enabled and the attacker's account to have previously received Administrator legitimately through a separate role-management mechanism while the plugin was active, so that `administrator` was written into the `dfxwcrc_foreign_roles` user meta cache before the external provider revoked it.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00335 27th 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

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
davefxMembership & User Roles for WooCommerce (Automatic Role Changer)up to 20260828—No fix listedCNA
  • Membership & User Roles for WooCommerce (Automatic Role Changer) Vendordavefx Affected up to 20260828 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

Remediation

The sources list no fixed version for Membership & User Roles for WooCommerce (Automatic Role Changer).

Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-28

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-14 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-104767
  2. 2026-10-14 Alias added: GHSA-m963-j4qw-ph48
  3. 2026-10-14 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
  4. 2026-10-16 CISA SSVC decision points changed

References

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