CVE-2026-12083

Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE)VulnerabilityCVSS 8.1

The Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) WordPress plugin before 8.8.4, admin-site-enhancements-pro WordPress plugin before 8.8.4 does not perform authentication, authorization, or nonce checks on a role-restoration request handler, allowing unauthenticated attackers to restore a previously demoted administrator account back to the administrator role. This is an incomplete fix of CVE-2024-43333 / CVE-2025-24648, which closed the issue for only one of the demotion paths the WordPress role API exposes.

No public exploitation has been reported so far. No distribution fix is listed yet; apply vendor mitigations and monitor.

Recommended action: Track your distribution's security tracker and apply the fix as soon as it ships.

CVE-2026-12083 Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE) Vulnerability

Severity metrics

CVSS 3.1 : 8.1 HIGH

Attack vectorNetwork (remote)

Attack complexityHigh

Privileges requiredNone

User interactionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Confidentiality impactHigh

Integrity impactHigh

Availability impactHigh

Vector: AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected & fixed versions by distribution

Versions are the native distribution strings (backport-aware): RHEL/Debian/SUSE backport fixes, so compare with the distro version comparator (dpkg / rpm / vercmp), not the upstream version.

No affected package in the tracked watchlist yet (Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, SUSE, Red Hat...). Triage may still be pending.

Sources

Advisory NVD CVE.org

Published 2026-07-06 · updated 2026-07-27 · source: NVD