CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-12158
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-11-04
- Last modified
- 2026-10-18
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-862
Description
The Simple User Capabilities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to a missing capability check on the suc_submit_capabilities() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to elevate the role of any user account to administrator.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
References
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/simple-user-capabilities/tags/1.0/user_access.php plugins.svn.wordpress.org
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-user-capabilities/ wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dd75b8ec-1961-4a7a-92e6-1517e638974b?source=cve www.wordfence.com