CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-1505
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-03-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• kodezen academy lms (< 1.9.20)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3037880/academy#file473 Patch
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b150f90a-ccb7-4c19-a4b3-eaf9ec264ba8?source=cve Third Party Advisory
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3037880/academy#file473 Patch
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b150f90a-ccb7-4c19-a4b3-eaf9ec264ba8?source=cve Third Party Advisory