🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2024-1505

HIGH 8.8

Academy LMS – eLearning and online course solution for WordPress <= 1.9.19 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

CVSS Score
8.8
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

The Academy LMS – eLearning and online course solution for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.19. This is due to plugin allowing arbitrary user meta updates through the saved_user_info() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with minimal permissions such as students, to elevate their user role to that of an administrator.

CWE CWE-269
Vendor kodezen
Product academy lms – wordpress lms plugin for complete elearning solution
Published Mar 13, 2024
Last Updated Apr 8, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

kodezen / Academy LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for Complete eLearning Solution
0 ≤ 1.9.19

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b150f90a-ccb7-4c19-a4b3-eaf9ec264ba8?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3037880/academy#file473

Credits

Lucio Sá