{"id":"CVE-2026-104767","title":"The Membership & User Roles for WooCommerce (Automatic Role Changer) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in versions up to, and including, 20260828","summary":"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 unconditio…","severity":"high","cvss":7.5,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","cwe":["CWE-269"],"published":"2026-10-14","updated":"2026-10-14","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-14T02:16:56.360","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-104767","references":[{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dfx-woo-role-changer/trunk/dfx-woo-role-changer.php#L351","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dfx-woo-role-changer/trunk/dfx-woo-role-changer.php#L414","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dfx-woo-role-changer/trunk/dfx-woo-role-changer.php#L427","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dfx-woo-role-changer/trunk/dfx-woo-role-changer.php#L468","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3732550%40dfx-woo-role-changer&new=3732550%40dfx-woo-role-changer","label":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/833d9f92-9af1-4332-9b1d-2d1d37073b4b?source=cve","label":"security@wordfence.com"}],"tags":["nvd"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-14T03:11:15.437Z","slug":"CVE-2026-104767","body":"## Overview\n\nThe 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by `remember_foreign_roles()`, which merges new foreign roles into the cache but never evicts roles that have since been revoked.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.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"twilight","depthScore":41,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":41.3,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}