The WP Data Access plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in versions up to, and including, 5.3.7. This is due to a lack of authorization checks on the multiple_roles_update function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with minimal permissions such as a subscriber, to modify their user role by supplying the 'wpda_role[]' parameter during a profile update. This requires the 'Enable role management' setting to be enabled for the site.

# not necessary.
#
# these can be manually input as arguments to the script.
#
# theses exports are for ease-of-use.
export TARGETIP=localhost
export TARGETPORT=80
export WPPATH=wordpress
export WPUSERNAME=myuser
export WPPASSWORD=mypass

python3 cve20231874.py $TARGETIP $TARGETPORT -u $WPUSERNAME -p $WPPASSWORD --path $WPPATH