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
- 7.4 High severity
User Frontend: Improper Privilege Management
The User Frontend WordPress plugin before 4.3.12 does not prevent tampering with the role assigned by its registration form, allowing unauthenticated users to register with a higher privileged role, such as Editor. This affects installations running a PHP buil
- 8.6 High severity
Chrome: Improper Privilege Management
Improper privilege management in Mojo in Google Chrome on on Windows prior to 154.0.8037.92 allowed a local attacker to potentially execute arbitrary code outside the sandbox via a local program. (Chromium security severity: High)
- 8.5 High severity
Eclipse ThreadX: Improper Privilege Management
In Eclipse ThreadX versions 6.0.1 through 6.5.2.202603, built with TX_ENABLE_EVENT_TRACE, the Module Manager lets a user-mode, memory-protected module register any function pointer as the kernel's trace-buffer-full callback, which the kernel calls from privile
- 9.8 Critical severity
electron: Improper Privilege Management
Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to 41.10.6, 42.9.2, 43.4.1, and 44.0.0-beta.5, an Electron <webview> guest could enable nodeIntegrationInWorker for its Web Workers even when the unsa
- 8.8 High severity
Thunderbird: Improper Privilege Management
Privilege escalation in the Address Bar component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox ESR 153.4, Thunderbird 157, Thunderbird 140.17, Thunderbird 153.4, Firefox 157, and Firefox ESR 140.17.
- 8.8 High severity
Thunderbird: Improper Privilege Management
Privilege escalation in the DOM: Service Workers component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox ESR 153.4, Thunderbird 157, Thunderbird 140.17, Thunderbird 153.4, Firefox 157, and Firefox ESR 140.17.
- 8.8 High severity
Thunderbird: Improper Privilege Management
Privilege escalation in the DLL Services component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox ESR 153.4, Thunderbird 157, Thunderbird 140.17, Thunderbird 153.4, Firefox 159, Firefox ESR 153.6, Thunderbird 159, Thunderbird 153.6, Firefox 157, and Firefox ESR 140.
- 8.8 High severity
raspap-webgui: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability was found in RaspAP raspap-webgui up to 3.5.5. Affected by this issue is the function PluginInstaller::addSudoers of the file src/RaspAP/Plugins/PluginInstaller.php of the component sudo Configuration. Performing a manipulation results in impro
- 8.8 High severity
DDI Central: Improper Privilege Management
Zohocorp ManageEngine DDI Central 6.2.0 build below 6201 had a Keepalived configuration injection vulnerability in the HA configuration workflow. This issue could allow an authenticated operator-level user to modify the Keepalived configuration and potentially
- 8.8 High severity
Groups – Memberships and Access Control: Improper Privilege Management
The Groups – Memberships and Access Control plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.6.0. This is due to the groups_join() function deriving group-join eligibility from the ambient post's author capabil
- 8.1 High severity
server: Improper Privilege Management
Budibase versions before 3.45.0 fail to validate per-app authorization in the POST /api/global/groups/:groupId/apps endpoint, allowing builders to assign application roles across workspace boundaries. A builder of a single workspace can exploit missing per-app
- 8.8 High severity
capgo.app: Improper Privilege Management
Cap-go capgo.app before 12.267.1 fails to validate target API key privilege during rotation, allowing an apikey_manager to rotate a higher-privileged org_super_admin sibling key and recover its plaintext credential. Attackers with apikey_manager role can enume
- 8.8 High severity
OpenClaw: Improper Privilege Management
OpenClaw Codex before 2026.7.1 fails to properly enforce owner authorization when creating native conversation bindings. Non-owner channel senders with command access can create bindings to the native Codex runtime and execute host-capable turns with access to
- 7.6 High severity
OpenClaw: Improper Privilege Management
OpenClaw (npm package `openclaw`) before 2026.7.1 fails to restrict owner-only infrastructure tools exposed through the chat.send endpoint. In Gateway deployments using authentication modes that honor caller identity and narrower operator scopes, a write-scope
- 8.7 High severity
zammad: Improper Privilege Management
Zammad is a web based open source helpdesk/customer support system. Prior to 7.0.2 and 7.1.0, this issue concerns a lack of discursive validation within the authorization cascade. It has been determined that the system-level enforcement of access restrictions
- 8.8 High severity
gVisor: Improper Privilege Management
Improper Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere in the host file helper (gofer) in Google gVisor prior to commit 573a9e73cf844f on Linux platforms with CUSE enabled allows a local attacker with container image deployment privileges to achieve root code execution
- 7.3 High severity
Optima Express IDX: Improper Privilege Management
The Optima Express IDX plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 8.7.5. This is due to the `provisionBlogCredentials()` function in `iHomefinderAdmin.php` being reachable via the `wp_ajax_nopriv_ihf_clear_
- 8.8 High severity
Knit Pay – Cashfree, Instamojo, Razorpay…: Improper Privilege Management
The Knit Pay – Cashfree, Instamojo, Razorpay, PayPal and more plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 9.6.1.0. This is due to the `maybe_update_user_role()` function reading the target role directly from
- 9.8 Critical severity
Automation Web Platform – Notifications and…: Improper Privilege Management
The Automation Web Platform – Notifications and OTP for WooCommerce, Advanced Country Code plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 4.8.6. This is due to missing permission enforcement on the publicly acc
- 8.8 High severity
authentik: Improper Privilege Management
authentik is an open-source identity provider. Prior to 2026.2.7, 2026.5.7, and 2026.8.2, an account with delegated permission to manage a group, group membership, or a user can grant superuser status to an account or assign an existing role to a group without
- 9.8 Critical severity
Paytium: Mollie payment forms & donations: Improper Privilege Management
The Paytium: Mollie payment forms & donations plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.3. The 5.0.3 patch introduced a wp_hash()/hash_equals() signature gate on the pt-paytium-user-data field, but lef
- 8.8 High severity
Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat…: Improper Privilege Management
IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for RedHat OpenShift could allow a remote authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges due to improper privilege management.
- 9.6 Critical severity
Concert: Improper Privilege Management
IBM Concert 1.0.0 through 3.0.0 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to access or modify unauthorized resources due to the use of wildcards in RBAC permission definitions.
- 7.2 High severity
ALE: Improper Privilege Management
A vulnerability exists in the maintenance restore functionality of Analytics and Location Engine (ALE). Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an authenticated remote attacker to gain unauthorized access to the file system with root privileg
- 7.0 High severity
netdata: Improper Privilege Management
Netdata is an open source observability tool. From version 2.0.0 until 2.10.4, Netdata Windows Agent MSI repair launches powershell.exe and wevtutil.exe as elevated interactive processes in the initiating user's desktop session. A low-privileged local user who
- 7.8 High severity
netdata: Improper Privilege Management
Netdata is an open source observability tool. From rom 2.0.0 until 2.10.4, during Netdata Windows Agent MSI repair, powershell.exe runs as SYSTEM without -NoProfile and loads %USERPROFILE%\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 from the l
- 7.3 High severity
HP Support Assistant: Improper Privilege Management
A potential security vulnerability has been identified in the HP Support Assistant for versions prior to 9.55.10.0. The vulnerability could potentially allow a local attacker to escalate privileges due to insufficient access controls.
- 7.2 High severity
CMP – Coming Soon & Maintenance Plugin by…: Improper Privilege Management
The CMP – Coming Soon & Maintenance Plugin by NiteoThemes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the 'cmp_ajax_import_settings' AJAX action in all versi
- 9.8 Critical severity
Meta Box Frontend Submission: Improper Privilege Management
The Meta Box AIO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation to Administrator in versions up to, and including, 3.11.0. This is due to a chained flaw: the populate_via_query_string() function in the mb-frontend-submission component unconditional
- 8.8 High severity
MTT S80 Driver Package: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
A vulnerability was found in Moore Threads MTT S80 Driver Package 340.150. The affected element is the function sub_140006F0C in the library mtdispkm64.sys of the component IOCTL Handler. The manipulation results in improper privilege management. Attacking loc
- 8.1 High severity
homebox: Improper Privilege Management
HomeBox is a home inventory and organization system. Prior to 0.26.0, HandleWipeInventory in backend/app/api/handlers/v1/v1_ctrl_actions.go authorizes POST /v1/actions/wipe-inventory through the global ctx.User.IsOwner value instead of the caller's role in the
- 7.2 High severity
core-framework: Improper Privilege Management
UVdesk core-framework before 1.1.7 contains an improper privilege management vulnerability in the editAgent endpoint that allows agents with agent-management privilege to escalate their own role to administrator. Attackers can submit their own account identifi
- 8.7 High severity
MISP: Improper Privilege Management
MISP has a security issue that can let a user gain more access than their API key is supposed to allow. A read-only API key should only let someone view information. However, after logging in with such a key, a specific MISP function could accidentally restore
- 7.2 High severity
Import and export users and customers: Improper Privilege Management
The Import and export users and customers WordPress plugin before 2.5.2 does not enforce the promote_users capability in its front-end import functionality, allowing users with only the create_users capability to change the role of existing users, including pr
- 7.2 High severity
Import and export users and customers: Improper Privilege Management
The Import and export users and customers WordPress plugin before 2.5.2 does not correctly enforce the promote_users capability when assigning roles during a CSV import, allowing users with only the create_users capability to create new administrator accounts
- 8.1 High severity
SAML Single Sign On: Improper Privilege Management
The SAML Single Sign On WordPress plugin before 6.0.0 does not honour the configured criterion for linking an incoming single sign-on identity to a WordPress account, always resolving the identity by login name whatever the site has chosen, which allows an att
- 8.8 High severity
SmartLife: Improper Privilege Management
SmartLife app dynamically generates fresh SmartLife application authentication parameters inside its runtime process. Using the acquired SmartLife application authentication parameters, an attacker can directly call the backend interface /account/verify.serv t
- 8.1 High severity
UsersWP: Improper Privilege Management
The UsersWP WordPress plugin before 1.5.10 does not verify that a social login provider has confirmed ownership of an email address before using it to resolve an existing account, allowing unauthenticated attackers to log in as any user, including administrato
- 7.2 High severity
WP Import Export Lite: Improper Privilege Management
The WP Import Export Lite WordPress plugin before 3.9.35 does not verify that the user running an import is permitted to create or modify user accounts and assign roles, allowing users granted a delegated WP Import Export Lite WordPress plugin before 3.9.35 pe
- 7.8 High severity
Guardium Data Protection: Improper Privilege Management
IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.2 is vulnerable to local privilege escalation via the SUID-root nmap_wrapper binary on the Collector appliance. A local attacker with low-privileged access to the Collector can exploit insufficient argument validation in the SUI