CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-16759
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-08-28
- Last modified
- 2026-08-28
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-74
Description
The Tutor LMS – eLearning and online course solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution limited to zero-argument function invocation in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.5 via the tutor_course_filter_ajax AJAX action. This is due to missing authorization on the handler combined with unsanitized array keys being passed to extract() inside tutor_load_template(), allowing attacker-controlled POST data to overwrite the local $template variable and, in the resulting templates/single-content-loader.php template, the $method_map and $context variables invoked at $method_map[$context](). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to call an arbitrary zero-argument PHP function server-side and, via WordPress core edit_user(), to create a persistent subscriber-level account from request parameters.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/4.0.1/classes/Course_Filter.php#L224 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/4.0.1/classes/Course_Filter.php#L58 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/4.0.1/includes/tutor-template-functions.php#L118 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/4.0.1/includes/tutor-template-functions.php#L128 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/4.0.1/templates/single-content-loader.php#L30 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tutor/tags/4.0.1/templates/single-content-loader.php#L71 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3653079/tutor/trunk/templates/single-content-loader.php plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Ftutor/tags/4.0.5&new_path=%2Ftutor/tags/4.0.6 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/65f68a49-8ded-479f-a9c3-187703bfae65?source=cve www.wordfence.com