CVE-2025-12157: TANVIRAHMED1984 Simple User Capabilities

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• TANVIRAHMED1984 Simple User Capabilities: up to and including 1.0

Published 2025-11-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.