CVE-2025-12158

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 3.1

9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 39% 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/dd75b8ec-1961-4a7a-92e6-1517e638974b?source=cve

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