Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Nov 4, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-12157

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

WordPress/Simple User Capabilitiesreferences
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-user-capabilities

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

plugins.svn.wordpress.org/simple-user-capabilities/tags/1.0/user_access.phpnvd
wordpress.org/plugins/simple-user-capabilities/nvd
www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3a1d0432-aff0-477e-aa6e-4de3e4d789cbnvd

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