Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Nov 4, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-12158

Description

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.

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/dd75b8ec-1961-4a7a-92e6-1517e638974bnvd

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