CVE-2026-104767
Description
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by `remember_foreign_roles()`, which merges new foreign roles into the cache but never evicts roles that have since been revoked.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.
Predictions
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.
Propose a mitigation on Community Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dfx-woo-role-changer/trunk/dfx-woo-role-changer.php#L351
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dfx-woo-role-changer/trunk/dfx-woo-role-changer.php#L414
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dfx-woo-role-changer/trunk/dfx-woo-role-changer.php#L427
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dfx-woo-role-changer/trunk/dfx-woo-role-changer.php#L468
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3732550%40dfx-woo-role-changer&new=3732550%40dfx-woo-role-changer
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/833d9f92-9af1-4332-9b1d-2d1d37073b4b?source=cve
CWEs
CWE-269
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.