CVE-2025-12157

Description

The Simple User Capabilities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'wp_ajax_nopriv_reset_capability' AJAX endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 1.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to reset any user's capabilities.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3a1d0432-aff0-477e-aa6e-4de3e4d789cb?source=cve

https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-user-capabilities/

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/simple-user-capabilities/tags/1.0/user_access.php

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

EPSS