CVE-2025-12158 | The Simple User Capabilities plugin for WordPress is vulnera… | CVSS 9.8 CRITICAL

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.

Metadata

CVE ID: CVE-2025-12158
State: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 2025-10-24 13:21 UTC
Published: 2025-11-04 04:27 UTC
Last updated: 2026-04-08 17:28 UTC
Primary CWE: CWE-862
CWE-862 Missing Authorization
Vendor / Product: tanvirahmed1984 / Simple User Capabilities
Sources: cve.org · NVD

Severity & Metrics

9.8 CRITICAL CVSS 3.1

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC — CISA Coordinator

Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Tech. Impact: total

Affected products (1)

Vendor	Product	Platform	Versions
tanvirahmed1984	Simple User Capabilities	—	0 ≤ 1.0

Weakness (CWE)

CWE	Source	Description
CWE-862	cna	CWE-862 Missing Authorization

CVSS scores (1)

Score	Severity	Version	Source	Vector
9.8	CRITICAL	3.1	cna	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (3)