User Role by BestWebSoft – Add and Customize Roles and Capabilities in WordPress
user-role · plugin
Known security vulnerabilities for User Role by BestWebSoft – Add and Customize Roles and Capabilities in WordPress. Find out in seconds which version runs on your site with WP Lens.
1 known vulnerabilities
1 exploitable without logging in · 1 with public exploit code · latest Aug 20, 2019
Listed on wordpress.org · latest 1.7.3 · last updated Jul 15, 2026 · 3K+ installs
wordpress.org status checked on Oct 10, 2026
Vulnerabilities
- Medium 6.1
CVE-2017-18566unauthenticated · needs a click
The user-role plugin before 1.5.6 for WordPress has multiple XSS issues.
The access label is read from the record's own text (e.g. “subscriber+”: subscriber and above). When the text names no role, CVSS decides between “login required” and “high privilege”; no role name is invented. “Needs a click”: the attack depends on a logged-in user following a link (CSRF, reflected XSS).