CVE-2025-12158 (GCVE-0-2025-12158)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-04 04:27 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:28
VLAI
Title
Simple User Capabilities <= 1.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
tanvirahmed1984 Simple User Capabilities Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.0 (semver)
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Credits
D01EXPLOIT OFFICIAL
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