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The Academy LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for Complete eLearning Solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all ve…
Published:
20 januari 2026 om 23:00:00
Alert date:
21 januari 2026 om 03:01:08
Source:
nvd.nist.gov
Web Technologies, Identity & Access
The Academy LMS WordPress plugin is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in versions up to 3.5.0. The vulnerability stems from improper user identity validation before password updates and reliance on publicly-exposed nonces for authorization. Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this to change arbitrary user passwords, including administrators, and gain unauthorized access to accounts.
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Affected products:
Academy LMS WordPress Plugin
Related links:
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-15521
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/academy/tags/3.5.0/includes/functions.php#L1581
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6687ebbe-fdf4-4ecb-bf59-034bb4b0104c?source=cve
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