CVE-2025-11620 Multiple Roles per User <= 1.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Custom+) Privilege Escalation
Authenticated users with edit_users capability can modify any user's role, including promoting themselves to Administrator, due to missing capability checks.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-11620?
CVE-2025-11620 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in jemoreto Multiple Roles per User, published on 18 Nov 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Multiple Roles per User plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'mrpu_add_multiple_roles_ui' and 'mrpu_save_multiple_user_roles' functions in all versions up to, and including, 1.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, granted the 'edit_users' capability, to edit any user's role, including promoting users to Administrator and demoting Administrators to lower-privileged roles.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-11620?
How do I fix CVE-2025-11620?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-11620 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-11620 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-11620 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-5jxg-637f-45cf.