CVE-2025-12157

{
  "id": "CVE-2025-12157",
  "sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
  "published": "2025-11-04T05:16:09.357",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-18T21:10:00.120",
  "vulnStatus": "Deferred",
  "cveTags": [],
  "descriptions": [
    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "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."
    },
    {
      "lang": "es",
      "value": "El plugin Simple User Capabilities para WordPress es vulnerable a la modificación no autorizada de datos debido a una comprobación de capacidad faltante en el endpoint AJAX 'wp_ajax_nopriv_reset_capability' en todas las versiones hasta la 1.0, inclusive. Esto hace posible que atacantes no autenticados restablezcan las capacidades de cualquier usuario."
    }
  ],
  "affected": [
    {
      "source": "[email protected]",
      "affectedData": [
        {
          "vendor": "tanvirahmed1984",
          "product": "Simple User Capabilities",
          "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
          "versions": [
            {
              "version": "0",
              "lessThanOrEqual": "1.0",
              "versionType": "semver",
              "status": "affected"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "metrics": {
    "cvssMetricV31": [
      {
        "source": "[email protected]",
        "type": "Secondary",
        "cvssData": {
          "version": "3.1",
          "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N",
          "baseScore": 5.3,
          "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM",
          "attackVector": "NETWORK",
          "attackComplexity": "LOW",
          "privilegesRequired": "NONE",
          "userInteraction": "NONE",
          "scope": "UNCHANGED",
          "confidentialityImpact": "NONE",
          "integrityImpact": "LOW",
          "availabilityImpact": "NONE"
        },
        "exploitabilityScore": 3.9,
        "impactScore": 1.4
      }
    ],
    "ssvcV203": [
      {
        "source": "134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0",
        "ssvcData": {
          "timestamp": "2025-11-04T17:15:52.055954Z",
          "id": "CVE-2025-12157",
          "options": [
            {
              "exploitation": "none"
            },
            {
              "automatable": "yes"
            },
            {
              "technicalImpact": "partial"
            }
          ],
          "role": "CISA Coordinator",
          "version": "2.0.3"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "weaknesses": [
    {
      "source": "[email protected]",
      "type": "Secondary",
      "description": [
        {
          "lang": "en",
          "value": "CWE-862"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "url": "https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/simple-user-capabilities/tags/1.0/user_access.php",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-user-capabilities/",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3a1d0432-aff0-477e-aa6e-4de3e4d789cb?source=cve",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    }
  ]
}