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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-10-24 | Published 2025-11-04 | Updated 2025-11-04 | Assigner Wordfence




CRITICAL: 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Problem types

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Product status

Default status
unaffected

* (semver)
affected

Timeline

2025-11-03:Disclosed

Credits

D01EXPLOIT OFFICIAL finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-1961-4a7a-92e6-1517e638974b?source=cve

plugins.svn.wordpress.org/...lities/tags/1.0/user_access.php

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

cve.org (CVE-2025-12158)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-12158)

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