CVE-2026-8422 PUBLISHED

Remove meta boxes per user role <= 1.01 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 12.05.2026 Published: 02.06.2026 Updated: 02.06.2026

The Remove meta boxes per user role plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.01. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'remove-meta-boxes-per-user-role' page. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify or reset the plugin's per-role meta box visibility settings via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 4.3

Product Status

Vendor mr_mat
Product Remove meta boxes per user role
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.01 (incl.)

Credits

  • Muhammad Nur Ibnu Hubab finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) CWE