CVE-2025-12641

Publication date

2026-01-16 04:44:34

Family

Wordfence

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The Awesome Support - WordPress HelpDesk & Support Plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to missing capability checks in all versions up to, and including, 6.3.6. This is due to the wpas_do_mr_activate_user function not verifying that a user has permission to modify other users roles, combined with a nonce reuse vulnerability where public registration nonces are valid for privileged actions because all actions share the same nonce namespace. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to demote administrators to low-privilege roles via the wpas-do=mr_activate_user action with a user-controlled user_id parameter, granted they can access the publicly available registration/submit ticket page to extract a valid nonce.