# 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.

- **Severity:** High 7.2 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 18 Nov 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-5jxg-637f-45cf

## 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 (Missing Authorization)

## 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.

## Is CVE-2025-11620 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-11620 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-11620 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-11620 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: jemoreto Multiple Roles per User. 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-2025-11620/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-11620/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-11620
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11620
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-11620

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-11620/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.