Membership & User Roles for WooCommerce (Automatic Role Changer) <= 20260828 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation to Stale Foreign Role Cache

Summary

The Membership & User Roles for WooCommerce (Automatic Role Changer) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in versions up to, and including, 20260828. This is due to the `maybe_add_role_to_user()` function unconditionally re-assigning every role stored in the `dfxwcrc_foreign_roles` user meta cache without verifying that each cached role is still actively assigned by the external provider — a condition made permanent by `remember_foreign_roles()`, which merges new foreign roles into the cache but never evicts roles that have since been revoked. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access and above to restore a previously revoked Administrator role to their own account, gaining full administrative control of the site, by triggering any role-assignment event such as completing a purchase for a role-mapped product. Exploitation requires Replace Roles mode to be enabled and the attacker's account to have previously received Administrator legitimately through a separate role-management mechanism while the plugin was active, so that `administrator` was written into the `dfxwcrc_foreign_roles` user meta cache before the external provider revoked it.

Timeline

1. Oct 14, 2026, 1:27 AM UTCCVE published
2. Oct 15, 2026, 10:52 AM UTCCISA SSVC assessment

   Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

3. Oct 15, 2026, 4:43 PM UTCRecord last updated

Affected versions

• davefx Membership & User Roles for WooCommerce (Automatic Role Changer)

  through 20260828

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