CVE-2024-1505

HIGH

Academy LMS < 1.9.19 - Authenticated Privilege Escalation via User Meta Update

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (2)

Core 2

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0076
EPSS Percentile 50.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-269
Status published
Products (2)
kodezen/Academy LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for Complete eLearning Solution < 1.9.19
kodezen/academy_lms < 1.9.20
Published Mar 13, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026