Uncanny Automator – Easy Automation, Integration, Webhooks & Workflow Builder: Privilege escalation or authentication bypass
Uncanny Automator – Easy Automation, Integration, Webhooks & Workflow Builder is affected by privilege escalation or authentication bypass. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. A successful request can grant permissions or access that the caller should not possess.
- Component
- Uncanny Automator – Easy Automation, Integration, Webhooks & Workflow Builder
- Plugin slug
uncanny-automator- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Apr 04, 2025
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Apr 04, 2025 and is one of 12 known issues for this plugin.
Patch or disable the affected component.
Update Uncanny Automator – Easy Automation, Integration, Webhooks & Workflow Builder to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
Technical description
The Uncanny Automator – Easy Automation, Integration, Webhooks & Workflow Builder Plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 6.3.0.2. This is due to add_role() and user_role() functions missing proper capability checks performed through the validate_rest_call() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to set the role of arbitrary users to administrator granting full access to the site, though privilege escalation requires an active account on the site so this is considered an authenticated privilege escalation.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H