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LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes <= 7.8.5 — Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Post Deletion

CVE-2024-12596Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤7.8.5Update to 7.8.6 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium4.3
CVSS
4.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-862 Missing Authorization
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes lifterlms

  1. Affected≤ 7.8.5
  2. Patched in7.8.6

Update to 7.8.6 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 7.8.5. Version 7.8.6 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 7.8.6, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Lucio Sá.

The LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary post deletion due to a missing capability check on the 'llms_delete_cert' action in all versions up to, and including, 7.8.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary posts.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes

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More vulnerabilities in LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.4Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Content Question Answer
≤10.3.2Update to 11.0.0
CVE-2026-119098
High7.5Authenticated (Contributor+) Local File Inclusion via 'lifterlms_checkout' Shortcode Attributes
≤10.3.1Update to 10.3.2
CVE-2026-110284
High8.8Authenticated (Custom+) PHP Object Injection via 'custom' Lesson Data
≤10.2.1Update to 10.3.0
CVE-2026-104723
Medium6.4Authenticated (Custom role+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤10.0.9Update to 10.0.10
CVE-2026-14207
Medium4.3Authenticated (Subscriber+) Information Exposure
<10.0.10Update to 10.0.10
CVE-2026-14231

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 4.3

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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