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.
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| 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. | |
| Title | Simple User Capabilities <= 1.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-862 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Wordfence
Published: 2025-11-04T04:27:22.881Z
Updated: 2025-11-04T15:01:57.048Z
Reserved: 2025-10-24T13:21:01.016Z
Link: CVE-2025-12158
Updated: 2025-11-04T15:01:53.557Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2025-11-04T05:16:10.083
Modified: 2025-11-04T15:40:45.533
Link: CVE-2025-12158
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