Simple User Capabilities <= 1.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

Missing Authorization

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE	CVE-2025-12158
CVSS	Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published	November 3, 2025
Last Updated	November 4, 2025
Researcher	D01EXPLOIT OFFICIAL

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.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	simple-user-capabilities (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	No
Affected Version	<= 1.0
Patched Version

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