fkie_cve-2025-12158
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-11-04 05:16
Modified
2025-11-04 15:40
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/simple-user-capabilities/tags/1.0/user_access.php
security@wordfence.comhttps://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-user-capabilities/
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dd75b8ec-1961-4a7a-92e6-1517e638974b?source=cve
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    }
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  "id": "CVE-2025-12158",
  "lastModified": "2025-11-04T15:40:45.533",
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