CVE-2025-12158

Nov. 4, 2025, 3:40 p.m.

9.8
Critical

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.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Wordpress
  • Simple User Capabilities
  • *

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-862
Missing Authorization
The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a wordpress simple_user_capabilities / / / / / wordpress / /

References

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/simple-user-capabilities/tags/1.0/user_access.php
https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-user-capabilities/
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dd75b8ec-1961-4a7a-92e6-1517e638974b?source=cve

Tags

security@wordfence.com
CWE-862
2025-11-04
CVE-2025-12158

CVSS Score

9.8 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: NONE
  • Scope: UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: HIGH
  • Integrity Impact: HIGH
  • Availability Impact: HIGH

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

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Timeline

Published: Nov. 4, 2025, 5:16 a.m.
Last Modified: Nov. 4, 2025, 3:40 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

security@wordfence.com

*Disclaimer: Some vulnerabilities do not have an associated CPE. To enhance the data, we use AI to infer CPEs based on CVE details. This is an automated process and might not always be accurate.