CVE-2025-12158

Published: Nov 4, 2025Modified: Jun 17, 2026Deferred

9.8

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 5.9

Source: security@wordfence.com (Secondary)

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 CWEs

CWE-862

Missing Authorization

The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

References (3)

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/simple-user-capabilities/tags/1.0/user_access.php

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-user-capabilities/

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dd75b8ec-1961-4a7a-92e6-1517e638974b?source=cve

Source: security@wordfence.com

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