🛡️ CVE-2023-1874
🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-266 NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

The WP Data Access plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 5.3.7. This is due to a lack of authorization checks on the multiple_roles_update function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with minimal permissions such as a subscriber, to modify their user role by supplying the 'wpda_role[]' parameter during a profile update. This requires the 'Enable role management' setting to be enabled for the site.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-266
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-04-12
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2026-04-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
wp-data-access — 5.3.7

References

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