CVE-2025-12158CRITICAL 9.8EPSS p28.5%

CVE-2025-12158CVE-2025-12158

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.

Scoring

CVSS 3.19.8 (CRITICAL)
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS0.37% probability of exploitation · percentile 28.5% · 2026-06-18T12:00:27Z
Published2025-11-04
Last modified2026-04-15

Underlying weaknesses· 1

CWE-862

References

  1. https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/simple-user-capabilities/tags/1.0/user_access.php
  2. https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-user-capabilities/
  3. https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dd75b8ec-1961-4a7a-92e6-1517e638974b?source=cve

1

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
WeaknessMissing Authorizationcwe-8620%live

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