CVE-2025-12157CWE-862broken-access-control

CVE-2025-12157

Medium · published November 4, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
20.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00289 · 20.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
Published
2025-11-04T10:16Z
References (3)
https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/simple-user-capabilities/tags/1.0/user_access.php · [email protected]https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-user-capabilities/ · [email protected]https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3a1d0432-aff0-477e-aa6e-4de3e4d789cb?source=cve · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 NOV 04:27Z
    Simple User Capabilities <= 1.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Capability Reset
    cvelistv5