CVE-2022-3419 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Automatic User Roles Switcher WordPress plugin before 1.1.2 does not have authorisation and proper CSRF checks, allowing any authenticated users like subscriber to add any role to themselves, such as administrator

Published: 2022-10-31

Score: 6.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

Automatic User Roles Switcher

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`1.1.2`	affected	< 1.1.2

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:addify:automatic_user_roles_switcher:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-42796	The Automatic User Roles Switcher WordPress plugin before 1.1.2 does not have authorisation and proper CSRF checks, allowing any authenticated users like subscriber to add any role to themselves, such as administrator

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00179.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/5909a423-9841-449c-a569-f687c609817b

History

Tue, 06 May 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Addify Automatic User Roles Switcher

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2022-10-31T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-06T20:12:09.630Z

Reserved: 2022-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-3419

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:07:06.705Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-10-31T16:15:11.587

Modified: 2025-05-06T21:15:54.033

Link: CVE-2022-3419

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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