diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/fix_user_module_for_default_roles.yml b/changelogs/fragments/fix_user_module_for_default_roles.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..920438b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/fix_user_module_for_default_roles.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+  - "mysql_user - fix a crash (unable to parse the MySQL grant string: SET DEFAULT ROLE `somerole` FOR `someuser`@`%`) when using the ``mysql_user`` module with a DEFAULT role present in MariaDB. The DEFAULT role is now ignored by the parser (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.mysql/issues/710)."
diff --git a/plugins/module_utils/user.py b/plugins/module_utils/user.py
index 337cc67..59f9b01 100644
--- a/plugins/module_utils/user.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/user.py
@@ -665,12 +665,19 @@ def privileges_get(cursor, user, host, maria_role=False):
             res = re.match("""GRANT (.+) ON (.+) TO .*""", grant[0])
 
         if res is None:
-            # If a user has roles assigned, we'll have one of priv tuples looking like
+            # If a user has roles or a default role assigned,
+            # we'll have some of the priv tuples looking either like
             # GRANT `admin`@`%` TO `user1`@`localhost`
+            # or
+            # SET DEFAULT ROLE `admin`@`%` FOR `user1`@`localhost`
             # which will result None as res value.
             # As we use the mysql_role module to manipulate roles
             # we just ignore such privs below:
-            res = re.match("""GRANT (.+) TO (['`"]).*""", grant[0])
+            res = re.match(
+                """GRANT (.+) TO (['`"]).*|SET DEFAULT ROLE (.+) FOR (['`"]).*""",
+                grant[0]
+            )
+
             if not maria_role and res:
                 continue
 
diff --git a/tests/integration/targets/test_mysql_user/tasks/issue-710.yml b/tests/integration/targets/test_mysql_user/tasks/issue-710.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7090f43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/integration/targets/test_mysql_user/tasks/issue-710.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+---
+- vars:
+    mysql_parameters: &mysql_params
+      login_user: '{{ mysql_user }}'
+      login_password: '{{ mysql_password }}'
+      login_host: '{{ mysql_host }}'
+      login_port: '{{ mysql_primary_port }}'
+
+  block:
+    - name: Issue-710 | Create user with DEFAULT privileges
+      community.mysql.mysql_user:
+        <<: *mysql_params
+        name: "{{ user_name_1 }}"
+        password: "{{ user_password_1 }}"
+        state: present
+
+    - name: Issue-710 | Create role to use as default
+      community.mysql.mysql_role:
+        <<: *mysql_params
+        name: developers
+        state: present
+        priv: '*.*:ALL'
+        members:
+        - "{{ user_name_1 }}@localhost"
+
+    - name: Issue-710 | Set default role for db_user1
+      community.mysql.mysql_query:
+        <<: *mysql_params
+        query: >-
+          SET DEFAULT ROLE developers {{ (db_engine == 'mysql') | ternary('TO', 'FOR') }} {{ user_name_1 }}@localhost
+
+    - name: Issue-710 | Ensure db_user1 can still be altered
+      community.mysql.mysql_user:
+        <<: *mysql_params
+        name: "{{ user_name_1 }}"
+        password: "{{ user_password_1 }}"
+        priv: '*.*:ALL'
+        state: present
+
+    - name: Issue-710 | Ensure mysql_info can still be executed
+      community.mysql.mysql_info:
+        <<: *mysql_params
+        filter: users_info
diff --git a/tests/integration/targets/test_mysql_user/tasks/main.yml b/tests/integration/targets/test_mysql_user/tasks/main.yml
index 7212886..c69aea3 100644
--- a/tests/integration/targets/test_mysql_user/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/tests/integration/targets/test_mysql_user/tasks/main.yml
@@ -309,3 +309,7 @@
     - name: Mysql_user - test user_locking
       ansible.builtin.import_tasks:
         file: test_user_locking.yml
+
+      # Test that mysql_user still works with default role set
+      # (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.mysql/issues/710)
+    - include_tasks: issue-710.yml