CVE-2023-0820 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability affecting the User Role by BestWebSoft WordPress plugin prior to version 1.6.7. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to trick an administrator into performing actions, leading to arbitrary privilege escalation for any user role on the affected WordPress site. The vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a critical severity. Its attack vector is network-based with low complexity, requiring user interaction (UI:R) but no prior privileges (PR:N), and can result in complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.6.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:bestwebsoft:user_role:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.