CVE-2025-12158 (GCVE-0-2025-12158)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-11-04 04:27
Modified
2025-11-04 15:01
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Summary
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.
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tanvirahmed1984 Simple User Capabilities Version: *   ≤ 1.0
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