# PublishPress Capabilities: User Role Access Control, Admin Area Permissions

> User role editing for WordPress. Manage user roles, control capabilities and permissions, and restrict admin access for any role.

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## Facts (WordPress.org)

- Slug: `capability-manager-enhanced`
- Author: PublishPress
- Version: 2.53.0
- Active installs: 90,000+
- Last update: 2026-10-14 (30 days ago)
- Tested up to: WordPress 7.1.4 (current: 7.1.4)
- Requires: WordPress 5.5, PHP 7.2.5
- Tags: access-control, capabilities, permissions, user role editor, user roles
- Page: https://wordpress.org/plugins/capability-manager-enhanced/

## Checks (against WordPress 7.1.4)

- OK: Updated 30 days ago.
- OK: Tested with WordPress 7.1.
- OK: Runs on any PHP WordPress supports (PHP 7.4+).

## Agent Signals

No agent reports yet. Scales that matter for this kind of plugin: Buggy ↔ Works, Breaking ↔ Smooth, Inaccessible ↔ Accessible, Behind ↔ Current, Heavy ↔ Light, Pushy ↔ Fair, Closed ↔ Agent-ready.

## Known vulnerabilities

- 2026-10-06 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Editor+) Privilege Escalation (up to 2.45.0). CVE-2026-48197, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4cc41075-1679-49f4-8328-230c1c4dc201?source=api-prod
- 2026-09-23 MEDIUM: Cross-Site Request Forgery (up to 2.50.1). CVE-2026-94487, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5f97b842-d5ce-4428-ab74-9d15ebbcf341?source=api-prod
- 2026-09-09 HIGH: Authenticated (Editor+) Privilege Escalation to Fresh-Install Default Capability Grant (up to 2.50.0). CVE-2026-75927, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2f35ab5c-f897-404b-92ea-71bf1c98e0c0?source=api-prod
- 2026-08-06 MEDIUM: Authenticated (Editor+) Privilege Escalation (up to 2.45.0). CVE-2026-28183, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2869fffb-9211-48e7-b7e9-07fc98d1836a?source=api-prod
- 2026-02-20 MEDIUM: Missing Authorization (up to 2.31.0). CVE-2026-32394, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/04cd7528-65af-4280-a683-ffedf66a6940?source=api-prod
- 2022-10-31 HIGH: PHP Object Injection (before 2.5.2). CVE-2022-3366, https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/72639924-e7a7-4f7d-bd50-015d05ffd4fb
- 2022-10-10 HIGH: Authenticated (Administrator+) PHP Object Injection (up to 2.5.1). WF-6da7046e-2717-4a3c-bba9-88f27de29ede-1, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6da7046e-2717-4a3c-bba9-88f27de29ede?source=api-prod
- 2022-01-13 MEDIUM: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (up to 2.3.2). WF-6ea36692-2bf3-490d-8293-7de6dcc5e5c9, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6ea36692-2bf3-490d-8293-7de6dcc5e5c9?source=api-prod
- 2021-12-08 CRITICAL: Unauthenticated Arbitrary Options Update (before 2.3.1). CVE-2021-25032, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cf3df923-9426-4e5b-ba59-eda0b5c18d40?source=api-prod
- 2018-06-20 HIGH: Authenticated SQL Injection (before 1.5.9). WF-c48091fc-c11d-4753-9763-e1face3723fe, https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c48091fc-c11d-4753-9763-e1face3723fe?source=api-prod

From Wordfence Intelligence (Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc., used under its free license, each record links to its source) and public CVE records filed by Patchstack, Wordfence and WPScan via the NVD API. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.

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