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Simple Admin Language Change <= 2.0.1 — Authorization Bypass

01e1b22f-9622-433f-bada-23d118dc3800Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤2.0.1Update to 2.0.2 or newer

All remediation steps
Severity
Medium4.3
CVSS
4.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-862 Missing Authorization
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed

Am I affected?

Simple Admin Language Change simple-admin-language-change

  1. Affected≤ 2.0.1
  2. Patched in2.0.2

Update to 2.0.2 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 2.0.1. Version 2.0.2 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Simple Admin Language Change.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 2.0.2, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Simple Admin Language Change to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to WPScanTeam.

The Simple Admin Language Change plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass due to a missing capability check on the salc_change_user_locale function in versions up to, and including, 2.0.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to change the locale of other users.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

Same weakness (Missing Authorization)

All Missing Authorization
Other Missing Authorization vulnerabilities
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent HeaderCVE-2026-120688
Critical9.8Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form SubmissionCVE-2026-125055
Critical9.8Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' ParameterCVE-2026-119077
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter
Customer Reviews for WooCommerce≤5.127.0Update to 5.128.0
CVE-2026-121518

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 4.3

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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