Critical 9.8Published Nov 3, 2025

CVE-2025-12158Simple User Capabilities <= 1.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 11:40 PM ET)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

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.

CVSS: 9.8 CRITICAL (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-862
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Wordfence
NVD analysis: Deferred
Record last updated: Apr 8, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

tanvirahmed1984 Simple User Capabilities tanvirahmed1984:simple_user_capabilities (from the name)	through 1.0	CNA record

References

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dd75b8ec-1961-4a7a-92e6-1517e638974b?source=cve
https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/simple-user-capabilities/tags/1.0/user_access.php
https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-user-capabilities/

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