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
- 9.6 Critical severity
praisonai-platform: Improper Privilege Management
PraisonAI Platform is the platform layer for the PraisonAI multi-agent teams system. Versions prior to 0.1.4 have aprivilege escalation / cross-tenant member injection. The `POST /workspaces/{workspace_id}/members` endpoint is gated only by `require_workspace_
- 8.1 High severity
praisonai-platform: Improper Privilege Management
PraisonAI Platform is the platform layer for the PraisonAI multi-agent teams system. Versions prior to 0.1.4 have an authorization bypass enabling destructive action. The `DELETE /workspaces/{workspace_id}` endpoint is gated only by `require_workspace_member(w
- 8.1 High severity
praisonai-platform: Improper Privilege Management
PraisonAI Platform is the platform layer for the PraisonAI multi-agent teams system. Versions prior to 0.1.4 have an authorization bypass enabling owner lockout. The `DELETE /workspaces/{workspace_id}/members/{user_id}` endpoint is gated only by `require_works
- 9.4 Critical severity
praisonai-platform: Improper Privilege Management
PraisonAI Platform is the platform layer for the PraisonAI multi-agent teams system. Prior to version 0.1.4, the Platform server exposes resources under `/api/v1/workspaces/{workspace_id}/...` and protects them with a `require_workspace_member(workspace_id)` F
- 8.8 High severity
Firefox: Improper Privilege Management
Privilege escalation in the DOM: Content Processes component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 153, Firefox ESR 140.13, Thunderbird 153, and Thunderbird 140.13.
- 8.8 High severity
Firefox: Improper Privilege Management
Privilege escalation in the DOM: Navigation component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 153, Firefox ESR 140.13, Thunderbird 153, Thunderbird 140.13, Firefox ESR 140.15, and Thunderbird 140.15.
- 8.8 High severity
Firefox: Improper Privilege Management
Privilege escalation in the DOM: Workers component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 153, Thunderbird 153, Firefox ESR 140.15, and Thunderbird 140.15.
- 9.8 Critical severity
Easy Form Builder by WhiteStudio – Drag & Drop…: Improper Privilege Management
The Easy Form Builder by WhiteStudio plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation to Administrator in versions up to, and including, 4.0.11 This is due to the password recovery flow using the publicly-visible session identifier ('
- 7.1 High severity
nextcrm-app: Improper Privilege Management
NextCRM is open-source customer relationship management (CRM) software. The CRM product catalog is an organization-wide business object. Normal application server actions restrict product creation, update, and deletion to `manager` and `admin` roles. However,
- 9.1 Critical severity
rt: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
RT is an open source, enterprise-grade issue and ticket tracking system. Versions prior to 5.0.10, 6.0.0 and above, prior to 6.0.3 contain an information disclosure and privilege escalation vulnerability in the REST 2.0 API. A privileged (non-administrative) u
- 9.4 Critical severity
dotCMS: Improper Privilege Management
Improper authorization in the ToolGroupResource and RoleAjax REST/DWR endpoints in dotCMS dotCMS 21.02 through 26.06.22-03 on all platforms allows a low-privileged authenticated backend user to self-assign the administrative layout and self-grant the CMS Admin
- 9.8 Critical severity
Apache Syncope: Improper Privilege Management
Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in Apache Syncope. When: * the all-Java user workflow adapter is configured, or * the Flowable user workflow adapter is configured, bearing a BPMN definition not requiring admin approval for user self registration of
- 8.1 High severity
Social Login, Passkeys, Magic Link & Email OTP: Improper Privilege Management
The Social Login, Passkeys, Magic Link & Email OTP WordPress plugin before 1.4.1 does not enforce rate limiting or a working attempt lockout on its passwordless email one-time-password verification, and stores the short numeric codes in plaintext, allowing an
- 9.4 Critical severity
Linux: Incorrect Authorization
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: skmsg: preserve sg.copy across SG transforms The sk_msg sg.copy bitmap is part of the scatterlist entry ownership state. A set bit tells sk_msg_compute_data_pointers() not to expose the e
- 8.8 High severity
Avi Load Balancer: Improper Privilege Management
VMware Avi Load Balancer contains a privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious authenticated user with network access may be able to execute remote code. Affected versions: 32.1.1 (fixed in 32.1.2) 31.1.1 through 31.2.2 (fixed in 31.2.2-2p3) 30.1.1 throug
- 7.8 High severity
Avi Load Balancer: Improper Privilege Management
VMware Avi Load Balancer contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious user with local access may be able to escalate their privileges to run code as root. Affected versions: 32.1.1 (fixed in 32.1.2) 31.1.1 through 31.2.2 (fixed in 31.2.2-2p
- 9.8 Critical severity
AI Copilot: Improper Privilege Management
The AI Copilot WordPress plugin before 1.5.4 does not bind OAuth access tokens to a WordPress user, and accepts any valid token as an administrator session, allowing unauthenticated attackers who complete the public OAuth flow to execute privileged MCP tools a
- 8.1 High severity
User Registration & Membership: Improper Privilege Management
The User Registration & Membership WordPress plugin before 5.2.3 does not validate that the membership tier submitted during public registration is one of the tiers allowed by the registration form before assigning that tier's associated user role, allowing un
- 9.8 Critical severity
Aimogen Pro - All-in-One AI Content Writer…: Improper Privilege Management
The Aimogen Pro - All-in-One AI Content Writer, Editor, ChatBot & Automation Toolkit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.4. This is due to due to a missing capability check on the 'aiomatic_call_
- 9.8 Critical severity
Bricksforge: Improper Privilege Management
The Bricksforge plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.8.6. This is due to improper validation of the fieldIds parameter in the Pro Forms registration action, which allows attacker-supplied field ID
- 8.1 High severity
wger: Improper Privilege Management
wger is a free, open-source workout and fitness manager. In versions prior to 2.6, a gym trainer can escalate their session to any higher-privileged account (gym manager, general manager) by chaining two calls to the trainer-login endpoint. Once a trainer perf
- 8.8 High severity
WPFunnels – Funnel Builder for WooCommerce…: Improper Privilege Management
The WPFunnels – Funnel Builder for WooCommerce with Checkout & One Click Upsell plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via arbitrary option update in all versions up to, and including, 3.12.8. This is due to the `update_settings()` REST cal
- 8.8 High severity
Digits: WordPress Mobile Number Signup and Login: Improper Privilege Management
The Digits: WordPress Mobile Number Signup and Login plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 9.1.0.5. This is due to missing authorization and role validation in the `dig_update_wpwc_custom_fields()` fun
- 8.8 High severity
Redux Framework: Improper Privilege Management
The Redux Framework WordPress plugin before 4.5.13 does not restrict which user meta keys can be written when saving custom profile fields, allowing users with at least the Subscriber role to escalate their privileges to Administrator by submitting a crafted v
- 7.6 High severity
wekan: Improper Privilege Management
Wekan is open source kanban built with Meteor. Prior to 9.32, Wekan OIDC-related Meteor methods in packages/wekan-oidc/oidc_server.js, server/models/org.js, and server/models/team.js are globally callable without the admin authorization checks used by their no
- 7.1 High severity
better-auth: Improper Privilege Management
Better Auth is an authentication and authorization library for TypeScript. From 1.2.10 until 1.6.11, the @better-auth/sso plugin's POST /sso/register endpoint lets any organization member attach a new SSO provider to that organization because registerSSOProvid
- 9.8 Critical severity
Tdelo64.sys: Improper Privilege Management
Pegatron `Tdelo64.sys` improperly exposes privileged hardware access functionality through the `\\.\TdeIo` device interface. IOCTL handlers including `TDE_IOCTL_INDEXIO_READ` and `TDE_IOCTL_INDEXIO_WRITE` permit unprivileged user-mode callers to perform arbitr
- 8.8 High severity
phpMyFAQ: Improper Privilege Management
phpMyFAQ before 4.1.5 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in the user/add API endpoint that allows non-SuperAdmin administrators to create SuperAdmin accounts. A delegated administrator with USER_ADD/EDIT/DELETE permissions can call POST /admin/api/u
- 8.5 High severity
Secure Access Client for Windows: Improper Privilege Management
Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in Citrix Secure Access Client for Windows, Citrix Citrix Endpoint Analysis Client for Windows. This issue affects Secure Access Client for Windows: before 26.6.1.20; Citrix Endpoint Analysis Client for Windows: befo
- 8.8 High severity
shiori: Improper Privilege Management
Shiori contains a privilege escalation vulnerability in the account update endpoint that allows authenticated users to modify the owner field without authorization checks. Attackers can escalate to administrator by submitting a crafted PATCH request with owner
- 8.1 High severity
Apache Airflow FAB provider: Improper Privilege Management
In the Apache Airflow FAB auth manager, a DAG whose `dag_id` is `DAGs` collided with the global all-DAGs permission resource name produced by `resource_name()`, so a user granted per-DAG `access_control` on that one DAG was silently granted the global all-DAGs
- 8.8 High severity
luci: Improper Privilege Management
OpenWrt luci-app-samba4 read ACL grants file.exec permission on /usr/sbin/smbd, allowing authenticated delegated users to execute the Samba daemon with caller-controlled command-line arguments. Attackers can pass arbitrary Samba global options such as message
- 8.8 High severity
Simple JWT Login – Allows you to use JWT on…: Improper Privilege Management
The Simple JWT Login – Allows you to use JWT on REST endpoints. plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 3.6.6 via the `payload` parameter. The vulnerability exists because `Authe
- 8.8 High severity
WP Grid Builder: Improper Privilege Management
The WP Grid Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.3. This is due to missing authorization and meta key validation in the `update()` handler for the `/wp-json/wpgb/v2/metadata` REST endpoint
- 7.1 High severity
discourse: Improper Privilege Management
Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to 2026.6.0, 2026.5.1, 2026.4.2, and 2026.1.5, the signup flow could allow newly registered users to set primary_group_id and gain whisper-group privileges without legitimate group membership on sites with
- 7.8 High severity
Cortex XDR Broker VM: Improper Privilege Management
A privilege escalation vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Cortex® XDR Broker VM enables a locally authenticated user to perform actions as the root user.
- 8.1 High severity
frigate: Improper Privilege Management
Frigate is an open source network video recorder. In version 0.17.1, the GET /api/logs/{service} endpoint allows any authenticated user including the viewer role to download Frigate and nginx logs, exposing auto-generated admin passwords and camera credentials
- 7.5 High severity
Backstage – Customizer Demo Access: Improper Privilege Management
The Backstage - Customizer Demo Access plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.2. This is due to the plugin assigning the `manage_options` capability to the `backstage_customizer_user` demo role, whi
- 7.1 High severity
Color Management Driver: Improper Privilege Management
FluxInk (formerly Sunia SPB Peripheral) Color Management Driver (TcnPeripheral64.sys) 1.0.7.2 allows local privilege escalation for a standard user account via arbitrary physical memory mapping at \Device\PhysicalMemory. Fixed in version 1.0.7.6. The fixed dri
- 8.5 High severity
FOSSBilling: Improper Privilege Management
FOSSBilling is a free, open-source billing and client management system. Versions prior to 0.8.0 allow a low-privileged staff account to grant arbitrary module permissions to itself through the admin API, resulting in persistent privilege escalation. A staff u