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.

INFO

Published Date :

2025-11-04T04:27:22.881Z

Last Modified :

2026-04-08T17:28:01.795Z

Source :

Wordfence
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-12158 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Wordpress
  • Wordpress
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2025-12158.

URL Resource
https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/simple-user-capabilities/tags/1.0/user_access.php cve-icon cve-icon
https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-user-capabilities/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dd75b8ec-1961-4a7a-92e6-1517e638974b?source=cve cve-icon cve-icon
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CVSS Vulnerability Scoring System

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Privileges Required
User Interaction
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