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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.8 Critical

CVE-2025-12158

Simple User Capabilities <= 1.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
Wordfence

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

tanvirahmed1984 Simple User Capabilities

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to ≤ 1.0affected

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