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CVE-2025-12963

CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS 3.1
Description
The LazyTasks – Project & Task Management with Collaboration, Kanban and Gantt Chart plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.29. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity via the 'wp-json/lazytasks/api/v1/user/role/edit/' REST API endpoint prior to updating their details like email address. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user's email addresses, including administrators, and leverage that to reset the user's password and gain access to their account. It is also possible for attackers to abuse this endpoint to grant users with access to additional roles within the plugin

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2025-12963
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Wordfence
Reserved
2025-11-10 17:09 UTC
Published
2025-12-12 03:20 UTC
Last updated
2026-04-08 17:21 UTC
Primary CWE
CWE-862
CWE-862 Missing Authorization
Vendor / Product
lazycoders / LazyTasks – Project & Task Management with Collaboration, Kanban and Gantt Chart
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)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
lazycoders LazyTasks – Project & Task Management with Collaboration, Kanban and Gantt Chart — 0 ≤ 1.2.29
Weakness (CWE)
CWESourceDescription
CWE-862 cna CWE-862 Missing Authorization
CVSS scores (1)
ScoreSeverityVersionSourceVector
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 (2)
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