LazyTasks – Project & Task Management with Collaboration, Kanban and Gantt Chart <= 1.2.29 - Missing Authorization to Uanuthenticated Privilege Escalation

Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2025-12963
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published December 11, 2025
Last Updated December 12, 2025
Researcher Athiwat Tiprasaharn (Jitlada)
Description

The LazyTasks – Project & Task Management with Collaboration, Kanban and Gantt Chart plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.29. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity via the 'wp-json/lazytasks/api/v1/user/role/edit/' REST API endpoint prior to updating their details like email address. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user's email addresses, including administrators, and leverage that to reset the user's password and gain access to their account. It is also possible for attackers to abuse this endpoint to grant users with access to additional roles within the plugin

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug lazytasks-project-task-management (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.2.29
Patched Version
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