Masteriyo — LMS <= 1.7.2 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
CVE-2024-24882Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.7.2Update to 1.7.3 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Critical9.8
- CVSS
- 9.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Weakness
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Masteriyo LMS – LMS Course Builder, Quizzes & Certificates learning-management-system
- Affected≤ 1.7.2
- Patched in1.7.3
Update to 1.7.3 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.7.2. Version 1.7.3 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Masteriyo LMS – LMS Course Builder, Quizzes & Certificates.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 1.7.3, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Masteriyo LMS – LMS Course Builder, Quizzes & Certificates to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Steven Julian.
The Masteriyo LMS – eLearning and Online Course Builder for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check on the update_logged_in_user() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to elevate their privileges to that of an administrator.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity critical, CVSS 9.8
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.
