CVE-2025-12157: The Simple User Capabilities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the…

PriorityP431medium5.3CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRNUINSUCNILAN

EPSS

0.24%

15.1th percentile

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.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
tanvirahmed1984	simple_user_capabilities	<= 1.0	—

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