PT-2025-44944 · Tanvirahmed1984 · Simple User Capabilities

D01Exploit Official · CVE-2025-12157 · Published 2025-11-04 · Updated 2025-11-04

Mitre

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

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

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.

Fix

Missing Authorization

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-862

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-12157

Affected Products

Simple User Capabilities

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12157 · Security Note
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-user-capabilities · Note
• https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/simple-user-capabilities/tags/1.0/user_access.php · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3a1d0432-aff0-477e-aa6e-4de3e4d789cb?source=cve · Note