CVE-2025-12158

critical · 9.8

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.

9.8

CVSS

0.4%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

36th

EPSS percentile

2025-11-04

Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-862

References

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

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2025-12158