CVE-2026-53635

HIGH 7.6

Open edX Platform: Insufficient Permission on set_course_mode_price()

CVSS Score

7.6

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

Open edX Platform enables the authoring and delivery of online learning at any scale. Prior to commit 59bb6d6, the view function set_course_mode_price() at lms/djangoapps/instructor/views/instructor_dashboard.py:430 is decorated only with @login_required and performs no course-level permission check. Any authenticated user — including a learner account with zero course roles — can issue a single POST request to overwrite the honor mode price and currency of any course on the platform. The companion frontend modal was removed in a prior cleanup, but the URL route and view remain live, making this an unguarded orphan endpoint. This issue has been patched via commit 59bb6d6.

CWE	CWE-862
Vendor	openedx
Product	openedx-platform
Published	Sep 2, 2026
Last Updated	Sep 2, 2026

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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

High

Availability

Low

Affected Versions

openedx / openedx-platform

< 59bb6d669e4fdc24d96afb809e12119372d9e257

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

github.com: https://github.com/openedx/openedx-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-rqq6-w4pv-7pjv github.com: https://github.com/openedx/openedx-platform/commit/59bb6d669e4fdc24d96afb809e12119372d9e257 github.com: https://github.com/openedx/openedx-platform/commit/f25bbc4d52bd827c8f04c73de427e2e16a144c73 github.com: https://github.com/openedx/openedx-platform/commit/fd93ef5f9940f4ad6f50cf7faecad8d9cf2d3336