# CVE-2022-4016: Booster for WooCommerce - Custom Role Creation/Deletion via CSRF

> Attackers can trick admins into creating or deleting custom roles via CSRF, potentially altering user permissions in WooCommerce.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 12 Dec 2022
- **Updated:** 22 Apr 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-fh57-58q7-6v93

## What is CVE-2022-4016?

CVE-2022-4016 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Unknown Booster Elite for WooCommerce, published on 12 Dec 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The Booster for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 5.6.7, Booster Plus for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 5.6.6, Booster Elite for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 1.1.8 does not properly check for CSRF when creating and deleting Customer roles, allowing attackers to make logged admins create and delete arbitrary custom roles via CSRF attacks

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-4016?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Booster Booster for Woocommerce.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-4016?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-4016 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-4016 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2022-4016 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Booster Elite for WooCommerce

- [CVE-2021-34646](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-34646/): Booster for WooCommerce <= 5.4.3 Authentication Bypass (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-1986](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1986/): Elite Booster for WooCommerce <= 7.1.7 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Upload (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2024-13342](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-13342/): Booster for WooCommerce <= 7.2.4 - Unauthenticated Double Extension Arbitrary File Upload (high 8.1)
- [CVE-2024-13744](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-13744/): Booster for WooCommerce 4.0.1 - 7.2.4 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload (high 8.1)
- [CVE-2022-3763](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-3763/): Booster for WooCommerce - Checkout Files Deletion via CSRF (high 8.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-4016 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-4016 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Unknown Booster Elite for WooCommerce, published on 12 Dec 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2022-4016 exists.

Affected product: Unknown Booster Elite for WooCommerce. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-4016/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-4016/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-4016
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4016
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-4016

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-4016/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.