Masteriyo LMS – eLearning and Online Course Builder for: A security weakness
Masteriyo LMS – eLearning and Online Course Builder for is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires an authenticated WordPress account. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Masteriyo LMS – eLearning and Online Course Builder for
- Plugin slug
learning-management-system- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Oct 29, 2024
- Weakness
- CWE-862 — Missing Authorization
This CVE was published Oct 29, 2024 and is one of 14 known issues for this plugin.
Patch or disable the affected component.
Update Masteriyo LMS – eLearning and Online Course Builder for to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
Technical description
The Masteriyo LMS – eLearning and Online Course Builder for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized user profile modification due to missing authorization checks on the /wp-json/masteriyo/v1/users/$id REST API endpoint in all versions up to, and including, 1.13.3. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with student-level access and above, to modify the roles of arbitrary users. As a result, attackers can escalate their privileges to the Administrator and demote existing administrators to students.
CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N