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The LazyTasks – Project & Task Management with Collaboration, Kanban and Gantt Chart plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.29. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity via the 'wp-json/lazytasks/api/v1/user/role/edit/' REST API endpoint prior to updating their details like email address. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user's email addresses, including administrators, and leverage that to reset the user's password and gain access to their account. It is also possible for attackers to abuse this endpoint to grant users with access to additional roles within the plugin

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-11-10 | Published 2025-12-12 | Updated 2025-12-18 | 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

2025-12-11:Disclosed

Credits

Athiwat Tiprasaharn finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-0f9b-48ab-9dca-05adf5ae603a?source=cve

wordpress.org/plugins/lazytasks-project-task-management/

cve.org (CVE-2025-12963)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-12963)

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