CVE-2025-12157

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.

CVSS 3.1

5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

EPSS

0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 21% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-862

Published

2025-11-04

Modified

2026-10-18

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

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/3a1d0432-aff0-477e-aa6e-4de3e4d789cb?source=cve

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