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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2025-12157 EUVD-2025-37584GHSA-mjm5-cr6q-x25r

Simple User Capabilities <= 1.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Capability Reset

Published Nov 4, 2025 · Updated Apr 8, 2026 · Assigned by Wordfence

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
tanvirahmed1984 Simple User Capabilities ≤ 1.0 —

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