# CVE-2025-12963: Missing authorization in LazyTasks – Project & Task Management with Collaboration, Kanban and Gantt Chart

> Unauthenticated attackers can modify user emails via an insecure REST API endpoint to reset passwords and take over accounts, including administrators.

- **Severity:** Critical 9.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 12 Dec 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-2729-w29v-p8pm

## What is CVE-2025-12963?

CVE-2025-12963 is a critical missing authorization vulnerability in lazycoders LazyTasks – Project & Task Management with Collaboration, Kanban and Gantt Chart, published on 12 Dec 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The LazyTasks – Project & Task Management with Collaboration, Kanban and Gantt Chart plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.29. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity via the 'wp-json/lazytasks/api/v1/user/role/edit/' REST API endpoint prior to updating their details like email address. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user's email addresses, including administrators, and leverage that to reset the user's password and gain access to their account. It is also possible for attackers to abuse this endpoint to grant users with access to additional roles within the plugin

Weakness: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-12963?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-12963?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-12963 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-12963 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-12963 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

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Check this codebase for CVE-2025-12963 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-12963 is a critical missing authorization vulnerability in lazycoders LazyTasks – Project & Task Management with Collaboration, Kanban and Gantt Chart, published on 12 Dec 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-12963 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: lazycoders LazyTasks – Project & Task Management with Collaboration, Kanban and Gantt Chart. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-12963/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-12963/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-12963
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12963
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-12963

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-12963/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.