CVE-2025-12157 (GCVE-0-2025-12157)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-04 04:27 – Updated: 2025-11-04 17:16
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Summary
The Simple User Capabilities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'wp_ajax_nopriv_reset_capability' AJAX endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 1.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to reset any user's capabilities.
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
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tanvirahmed1984 Simple User Capabilities Affected: * , ≤ 1.0 (semver)
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D01EXPLOIT OFFICIAL
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