TI-2025-11148 Aliases CVE-2025-12158 GHSA-cw7m-pr9p-fp7m

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

MEDIUM 49CWE-862Published 2025-11-04 · Updated 2026-04-08

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Security bypass
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: High · High · High
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-862.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00452 39th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: Yes
Technical impact: Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
tanvirahmed1984	Simple User Capabilities	up to 1.0	—	No fix listed	CNA

Simple User Capabilities Vendortanvirahmed1984 Affected up to 1.0 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-12158
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-cw7m-pr9p-fp7m

References

Other 3

TI-2025-11147 Simple User Capabilities <= 1.0 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Capability Reset CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3

Sources

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