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.
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| 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. | |
| Title | Simple User Capabilities <= 1.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Capability Reset | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-862 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Wordfence
Published: 2025-11-04T04:27:16.185Z
Updated: 2025-11-04T17:16:00.320Z
Reserved: 2025-10-24T13:18:32.870Z
Link: CVE-2025-12157
Updated: 2025-11-04T17:15:56.227Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2025-11-04T05:16:09.357
Modified: 2025-11-04T15:40:45.533
Link: CVE-2025-12157
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