Automatic User Roles Switcher < 1.1.2 - Subscriber+ Privilege Escalation

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

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.41% · top 65% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.

Weakness

• CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-269 and its CVEs
• CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-352 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Unknown · Automatic User Roles Switcher

  • affected 1.1.2 – < 1.1.2

References (1)

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/5909a423-9841-449c-a569-f687c609817b (opens in a new tab)x_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2022-3419](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2022-3419.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2022-3419)

Record last updated 6 May 2025, 20:12 UTC.