CVE-2025-12158

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CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

EPSS

<1%p36

Published

Nov 4, 2025 (Nov 4, 2025)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Ecosystems: WordPress
Weakness: CWE-862
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.4%)

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