Subscriber-to-Administrator escalation via unchecked profile role update
Published Oct 31, 2022 · Updated May 6, 2025
Privilege escalation in Addify WooCommerce Automatic User Roles Switcher before 1.1.2 allows remote authenticated users to become administrators. The plugin exposes an administrator-role choice on wp-admin/profile.php and accepts a subscriber-selected role during profile update without an authorization check. A subscriber account and access to its profile page are required; successful exploitation grants full WordPress administrator privileges.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in Addify WooCommerce Automatic User Roles Switcher before 1.1.2 allows remote authenticated users to become administrators. The plugin exposes an administrator-role choice on wp-admin/profile.php and accepts a subscriber-selected role during profile update without an authorization check. A subscriber account and access to its profile page are required; successful exploitation grants full WordPress administrator privileges.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-3419
- Published
- Oct 31, 2022
- Updated
- May 6, 2025
- Vendor
- Addify
- Product
- WooCommerce Automatic User Roles Switcher
- Classifications
- CWE-269, CWE-352, T1098
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Oct 31, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 6, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=1.1.2 <1.1.2
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Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
- Subscriber profile role-change proof of conceptproof of concept · validated
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