Academy LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for Complete eLearning Solution <= 3.5.0 — Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover
CVE-2025-15521Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤3.5.0Update to 3.5.1 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
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Academy LMS – AI Course Builder, Quizzes, Certificates & eLearning academy
- Affected≤ 3.5.0
- Patched in3.5.1
Update to 3.5.1 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 3.5.0. Version 3.5.1 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Academy LMS – AI Course Builder, Quizzes, Certificates & eLearning.
- 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 3.5.1, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Academy LMS – AI Course Builder, Quizzes, Certificates & eLearning to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to vgo0.
The Academy LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for Complete eLearning Solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.0. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their password and relying solely on a publicly-exposed nonce for authorization. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user's password, including administrators, and gain access to their account.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
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|---|---|---|---|
| Medium6.5 | Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Custom+) Arbitrary Academy Comment Deletion via delete_lesson_comment AJAX — Attacker-Controlled course_id vs. Target comment_id ≤4.0.3Update to 4.0.4 | CVE-2026-104915 | |
| Medium5.4 | Authenticated (Custom+) Privilege Escalation to add_child REST endpoint ≤4.0.3Update to 4.0.4 | CVE-2026-104022 | |
| Medium4.3 | Authenticated (Subscriber+) Insecure Direct Object Reference ≤3.0.0Update to 4.0.0 | CVE-2026-104049 | |
| Medium4.3 | Authenticated (Subscriber+) Insecure Direct Object Reference ≤3.0.0Update to 4.0.0 | CVE-2026-104050 | |
| Medium4.3 | Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary HTML File Read via 'id' Parameter in /wp/v2/templates REST Route ≤4.0.1Update to 4.0.2 | CVE-2026-120544 |
- Medium6.5Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Custom+) Arbitrary Academy Comment Deletion via delete_lesson_comment AJAX — Attacker-Controlled course_id vs. Target comment_id
≤4.0.3Update to 4.0.4
- Medium5.4Authenticated (Custom+) Privilege Escalation to add_child REST endpoint
≤4.0.3Update to 4.0.4
- Medium4.3Authenticated (Subscriber+) Insecure Direct Object Reference
≤3.0.0Update to 4.0.0
- Medium4.3Authenticated (Subscriber+) Insecure Direct Object Reference
≤3.0.0Update to 4.0.0
- Medium4.3Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary HTML File Read via 'id' Parameter in /wp/v2/templates REST Route
≤4.0.1Update to 4.0.2
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.
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- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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