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Membership & User Roles for WooCommerce (Automatic Role Changer) <= 20260828 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation to Stale Foreign Role Cache

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

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by `remember_foreign_roles()`, which merges new foreign roles into the cache but never evicts roles that have since been revoked.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.

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CVE-2026-104767

Primary source · Revision 1

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Security context

Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-104767

Membership & User Roles for WooCommerce (Automatic Role Changer)

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product

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Structured affected-version data

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[
  {
    "vendor": "davefx",
    "product": "Membership & User Roles for WooCommerce (Automatic Role Changer)",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "0",
        "versionType": "semver",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "20260828"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  }
]
Related CVEs
CVE-2026-104767

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Publisher severity

high

Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics

Event
#29796 · Revision 1
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