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CVE-2025-12157: Simple User Capabilities <= 1.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Capability Reset

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-11-04 · updated 2026-10-18
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

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.

Affected products

• tanvirahmed1984 Simple User Capabilities: through 1.0

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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