User Role Editor

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Reviewers split between praise for the plugin's simplicity and support, and persistent reports of broken custom roles and multisite permission failures that show up in both older and newer reviews.

1. ★★★★★ Pk Gibson

   1.2y ago

   This plugin is working well. Thank you for the developer who put lot of time into it. Very nice, lightest and most simple.

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2. ★★★★★ indivisible

   1.3y ago

   I’m a DIY self learner, and had a great experience with URE. It has vast capabilities and is organized to make it easy to navigate and apply so many customizations. Very intuitive. On the one occasion I needed guidance, the tech support was quick, personal and a success. Highly recommend.

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3. ★★★★★ jen000

   1.4y ago

   I hate giving bad reviews as I know how much work goes into these plugins, often by one person. But we have wasted so much time and lost orders because of a known bug. I can see that others have reported this bug from at least 4 months ago. So I want to warn others. The whole point of us using this plugin was to create a custom role and to assign specific capabilities to that role. For a short while it worked so we launched the site. And then it stopped working and caused chaos. We have spent FOREVER trying to figure this out. We will be moving to a different plugin asap.

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4. ★★★★★ shirax

   1.4y ago

   Didn’t break my site, it just doesn’t work. On multisite, trying to give user permissions to install plugins–as it indicated in settings that it could do that. Appears to uninstall cleanly, at least.

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5. ★★★★★ LambrosHatzini

   1.8y ago

   I’ve tried two other plugins to no avail. This one works great!

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6. ★★★★★ cicavizio

   1.9y ago

   its set several user role randomly, and sadly the uninstall didnt fix

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7. ★★★★★ R2Dee

   1.9y ago

   Congratulations on this plugin. This destroyed my entire WP Multisite, so that the registration process could no longer assign the created websites to any user. There was no way to fix this error. Really great. Maybe you should think about how you can better a) save changes and b) restore them BEFORE you make any changes at all. A plugin like this should almost be banned!

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8. ★★★★★ Skylabb

   1.9y ago

   I like the simplicity of the UI making it easy to edit user roles.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 4.65 Update: Marked as compatible with WordPress 7.0 Update: Pages markup are modified to correspond WordPress 7.0 CSS changes. Update: “defined(‘ABSPATH’)” guard was added to all PHP files to exclude PHP files direct executi 4.65
2. — Version 4.64.6 Update: Marked as compatible with WordPress 6.9 Update: Minor code enhancements according to the “Plugin Check” tool recommendations. Update: “Users->Grant Roles” HTML code download optimization to exclude cases when URE 4.64.6
3. — Version 4.66 Update: Marked as compatible with WordPress 7.1 Required PHP version increased up to 7.4 Required WordPress version increased up to 4.6 Update: Plugin loading code is enhanced. Update: Plugin does not use self-defined PH 4.66

2 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. High · 8.8 User Role Editor <= 4.64.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Privilege Escalation ↗
   2024-12-16 CVE-2024-12293 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 4.64.3 Patched in 4.64.4
2. High · 8.8 User Role Editor <= 4.24 - Authenticated Privilege Escalation ↗
   2016-04-04 Improper Authorization Affects < 4.25 Patched in 4.25

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 79 languages, 17 at 90% or more

Plus 55 more locales with partial translations.

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User Role Editor: 700K+ active installs, 4.5★ (288 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-25. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/user-role-editor