Improper Privilege Management
CWE-269
The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.
We track 1,938 vulnerabilities of this type. 100% are rated high or critical, and the average CVSS score is 8.4. 22 have been exploited in real attacks.
How this weakness is prevented
- Architecture and Design Operation: Very carefully manage the setting, management, and handling of privileges. Explicitly manage trust zones in the software.
- Architecture and Design: Follow the principle of least privilege when assigning access rights to entities in a software system.
- Architecture and Design: Consider following the principle of separation of privilege. Require multiple conditions to be met before permitting access to a system resource.
Latest Improper Privilege Management vulnerabilities
- 8.5 High severity
ABP: Improper Privilege Management
The background service of ABP or AES runs as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM and implements a file-based inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism protected by AES encryption. Because the encryption key file is readable by standard users and protected using DPAPI. Any a
- 7.8 High severity
RzUpdateService: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A weakness has been identified in Razer RzUpdateService 1.10.14.0. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file C:\Program Files (x86)\Razer\RzUpdateEngineService\RzUpdateService.exe of the component Named Pipe Handler. Executing a ma
- 9.1 Critical severity
Import and export users and customers: Improper Privilege Management
The Import and export users and customers WordPress plugin before 2.4.2 does not enforce WordPress's role-assignment and per-user edit permissions during CSV import, allowing a user holding only the user-creation capability to create an administrator account a
- 8.8 High severity
arcadedb: Improper Privilege Management
ArcadeDB before 26.7.3 binds the real LocalDatabase object into JavaScript trigger contexts with HostAccess.ALL, allowing schema-admins to call getSecurity().createUser() without permission checks. Attackers with UPDATE_SCHEMA permission can create triggers th
- 9.8 Critical severity
POUCO Import Users: Improper Privilege Management
The POUCO Import Users WordPress plugin through 1.0.0 does not perform any capability or nonce checks on AJAX actions available to unauthenticated users that create and update WordPress accounts, and it trusts an attacker-supplied role value, allowing unauthen
- 8.8 High severity
Pronamic Pay: Improper Privilege Management
The Pronamic Pay plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 10.1.0 This is due to the `maybe_update_user_role()` function passing an attacker-controlled Gravity Forms field value (`$lead[$feed->user_role_fi
- 8.1 High severity
User Profile Builder: Improper Privilege Management
The User Profile Builder WordPress plugin before 3.16.4 does not correctly bind the automatic login performed after user registration to the newly created account, allowing unauthenticated attackers to obtain an authenticated session for an arbitrary existing
- 8.8 High severity
Subscriptions for WooCommerce: Improper Privilege Management
The Subscriptions for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in versions up to, and including, 2.0.0. This is due to the `save_meta_boxes()` function persisting the `_wps_plan_user_role` membership plan meta from `$_POST` withou
- 7.5 High severity
Demi: Improper Privilege Management
The Demi WordPress plugin before 0.0.7 stores its full-site backup archives in a publicly accessible location under a predictable filename and without access protection, allowing unauthenticated attackers to download complete backups including the site databas
- 8.1 High severity
Ultimate Member: Improper Privilege Management
The Ultimate Member WordPress plugin before 2.12.1 does not filter administrator-level capabilities from the roles it makes selectable on its registration forms, and its post-registration safeguard against elevated accounts is disabled by default, allowing una
- 8.8 High severity
WebSphere Application Server - Liberty: Improper Privilege Management
IBM WebSphere Application Server - Liberty 17.0.0.3 through 26.0.0.8 is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery which could allow an attacker to perform SSRF attacks with elevated privileges when the collectiveController-1.0 feature is enabled.
- 7.5 High severity
ProfileGrid: Improper Privilege Management
The ProfileGrid WordPress plugin before 5.9.9.8 does not restrict which group an anonymous visitor may register into through its front-end registration, allowing unauthenticated users to register directly into a privileged group and be granted that group's con
- 8.8 High severity
Chrome: Improper Privilege Management
Inappropriate implementation in Passwords in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)
- 8.8 High severity
Chrome: Improper Privilege Management
Inappropriate implementation in Scheduling in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low)
- 7.5 High severity
Chrome: Improper Privilege Management
Inappropriate implementation in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted Chrome Extension. (Chromium security severity: Low)
- 8.8 High severity
Chrome: Improper Privilege Management
Inappropriate implementation in Safebrowsing in Google Chrome on Mac prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via a malicious file. (Chromium security severity: Low)
- 8.4 High severity
Chrome: Improper Privilege Management
Inappropriate implementation in Chromoting in Google Chrome on Linux prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a local attacker to perform OS-level privilege escalation via malicious network traffic. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
- 8.8 High severity
Chrome: Improper Privilege Management
Insufficient policy enforcement in USB in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker to perform privilege escalation via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
- 7.8 High severity
Chrome: Improper Privilege Management
Inappropriate implementation in Updater in Google Chrome on Mac prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a local attacker to perform OS-level privilege escalation via a malicious file. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
- 7.8 High severity
Chrome: Improper Privilege Management
Inappropriate implementation in Browser in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a local attacker to perform privilege escalation via a malicious file. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
- 7.5 High severity
Chrome: Improper Privilege Management
Insufficient policy enforcement in Speech in Google Chrome on Android prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to perform privilege escalation via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
- 8.8 High severity
Chrome: Improper Privilege Management
Inappropriate implementation in AdFilter in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
- 7.1 High severity
Chrome: Improper Privilege Management
Inappropriate implementation in File Input in Google Chrome on Linux prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
- 8.8 High severity
Wholesale for WooCommerce: Improper Privilege Management
The Wholesale for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.5. This is due to the `save_requests_meta()` function applying only `sanitize_text_field()` to the `user_role_set` POST parameter
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Improper Privilege Management
A flaw was found in CRIU's handling of restartable sequences (rseq) during checkpoint/restore. A malicious process inside a container can register an rseq critical section that hijacks CRIU's parasite code injection during checkpoint, allowing it to spoof the
- 8.8 High severity
WP Password Policy: Improper Privilege Management
The WP Password Policy plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to and including 3.7.1. This is due to missing authorization checks and nonce verification in the `get_user()` function of the `Module_Password_Hint` class, wh
- 8.8 High severity
Eazy Plugin Manager – Powerful Plugin…: Improper Privilege Management
The Eazy Plugin Manager – Powerful Plugin Management Solution for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.4.1. This is due to insufficient authorization on the `wp_ajax_pos_get_option` AJAX h
- 9.8 Critical severity
TrueBooker: Improper Privilege Management
The TrueBooker WordPress plugin before 1.2.4 does not validate account ownership when resetting a user's password through one of its front-end account handlers, allowing unauthenticated attackers to set an arbitrary password on any account, including an admini
- 7.2 High severity
artifactory: Improper Privilege Management
An authenticated privilege-escalation vulnerability in JFrog Platform may be exploited under admin-provisioned account conditions. Successful exploitation may grant temporary platform administrator access.
- 8.1 High severity
Custom Fields Account Registration For…: Improper Privilege Management
The Custom Fields Account Registration For Woocommerce WordPress plugin before 1.4 does not prevent its custom registration fields from writing to the user capabilities meta key on sites that use a non-default database table prefix, so an unauthenticated user
- 9.8 Critical severity
MemberGlut: Improper Privilege Management
The MemberGlut WordPress plugin before 1.1.5 does not validate the role chosen during front-end registration, allowing unauthenticated users to register an account with an arbitrary role, including administrator, leading to full site compromise.
- 8.4 High severity
LIP-ME20xC: Improper Privilege Management
Improper Privilege Management (CWE-269) in `/usr/bin/ltsudo` in Loytec LIP-ME201C, L-INX, L-GATE, L-ROC, L-IOB, L-DALI, L-VIS and L-PAD through 8.4.16 on LINX-A64 allows a `superadmin`-group attacker to reset the password of any LARM user (including the `larma
- 7.5 High severity
CAFEHAUS API: Improper Privilege Management
The CAFEHAUS API WordPress plugin through 1.0.0 does not have any authentication or authorisation when updating user passwords, allowing unauthenticated attackers to set the password of any user, including administrators, and fully take over their accounts.
- 7.5 High severity
Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User…: Improper Privilege Management
The Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content WordPress plugin before 4.16.18 does not consistently enforce the role restriction configured on its front-end registration role-selection field. The set
- 8.0 High severity
WPify Woo – Withdrawal, CRN/VAT, QR payments…: Improper Privilege Management
The Wpify Woo plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in versions up to, and including, 5.4.16. This is due to the SettingsApi::save_option() REST route (POST /wp-json/wpify-woo/v1/option) passing the request-supplied 'option' and 'data' par
- 9.9 Critical severity
Casdoor: Improper Privilege Management
A non-global organization admin in one tenant can bypass tenant boundaries to delete, create, or modify resources in any other tenant by exploiting a mismatch between authorization (based on ?id=) and action (based on request body).
- 8.8 High severity
grav: Improper Privilege Management
Grav API Plugin versions before 1.0.10 fail to validate the groups field in InvitationsController::create(), allowing authenticated api.users.write callers to assign invited accounts to groups that grant api.super permissions. Attackers can create invitation r
- 8.8 High severity
MDJM Event Management: Improper Privilege Management
The MDJM Event Management plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.8.4. This is due to missing capability checks and nonce verification in the `MDJM_Permissions::set_permissions()` and `MDJM_Employee_
- 8.8 High severity
Oracle Platform Security for Java: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle Platform Security for Java product of Oracle Fusion Middleware (component: Centralized Thirdparty Jars). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.0.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged atta
- 8.8 High severity
Oracle Platform Security for Java: Improper Privilege Management
Vulnerability in the Oracle Platform Security for Java product of Oracle Fusion Middleware (component: Centralized Thirdparty Jars). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.0.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged atta