mysql inner join producing more results than it should
Why are you using two syntaxes, old fashioned verbs, roles and then an explicit inner join? Makes the query very hard to read and since you don't have any where clause that defines the relationship between verbs and roles (this is one of the biggest problems with using old fashioned syntax), you essentially have the cartesian product of those first two tables, and this probably explains your row counts.

You need to define the join columns between verbs and roles and, preferably, put that into an ON clause with a proper INNER JOIN. E.g.:

SELECT r.name, v.name, p.enabled
FROM verbs AS v
INNER JOIN privileges AS p
  ON v.id = p.verb_id
INNER JOIN roles AS r
  ON p.role_id = r.id;