CVE-2024-49217

critical

Published 2024-10-17 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

9.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.8

Description

Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in madiriaashish Adding drop down roles in registration user-drop-down-roles-in-registration allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects Adding drop down roles in registration: from n/a through <= 1.1.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
madirisalmanaashish	adding_drop_down_roles_in_registration	`{"endIncluding":"1.1"}`

References

https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/user-drop-down-roles-in-registration/vulnerability/wordpress-adding-drop-down-roles-in-registration-plugin-1-1-privilege-escalation-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

CWEs

CWE-266

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.