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CVE-2026-12083: Admin and Site Enhancements < 8.8.4 - Unauthenticated Administrator-Role Restoration via reset-for Parameter
- Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-07-06 · updated 2026-07-06
Description
The Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) WordPress plugin before 8.8.4, admin-site-enhancements-pro WordPress plugin before 8.8.4 does not perform authentication, authorization, or nonce checks on a role-restoration request handler, allowing unauthenticated attackers to restore a previously demoted administrator account back to the administrator role. This is an incomplete fix of CVE-2024-43333 / CVE-2025-24648, which closed the issue for only one of the demotion paths the WordPress role API exposes.
Affected products
- admin-site-enhancements-pro: from 7.6.3 before 8.8.4 — fixed in 8.8.4
- Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE): from 7.6.3 before 8.8.4 — fixed in 8.8.4
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: admin-site-enhancements-pro 8.8.4; Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) 8.8.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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